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Bindheimite

ex Freiberg Mining Academy Mineral Dealership, Saxony, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Serrana Mine, El Molar, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 4.3 × 1.8 cm
Weight: 
20.10gr
Description

Earthy yellow bindheimite on a gossan matrix.

Comes with a beautiful old label of the K.S. (Königlich-Sächsische) Mineralien-Niederlage zu Freiberg, (Royal saxon mineral repository, Freiberg), In the hand of Wilhelm Maucher, who was Faktor in 1904-1909.
The label means: ' Bindheimit vom Manganerzlager zu Serrata in Spanien' (Bindheimite from the manganese ore deposit at Serrata in Spain).

I suspect a mistake in writing the locality. There are only few manganese ore deposits in Spain; the 'Serrana Mine' is one of them and this name roughly fits.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bindheimite

Formula: 
Pb2Sb25+O7
Strunz: 
4.DH.20
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4 - 4.5
Colour: 
Yellow, yellow-brown

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