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Embolite & Cerussite

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Embolite & Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.7 × 3.7 cm
Description

SEM-EDS confirmed yellow-green embolite with cerussite and bluish scalenohedral smithsonite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Embolite

Renamed To: 

Bromian Chlorargyrite

Formula: 
Ag(Cl,Br)
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy