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Litharge Zincite & Oxyplumboroméite

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Litharge Zincite & Oxyplumboroméite

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Description
Locality: 
Genna Zinc Smelter, Letmathe, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm
Description

Well terminted trees and cross of mixture lithargite and zincite and a second phase oxyplumboromeite. Lithargite and zincite shows always dark red cubic crystals, which are intergrown to cross and trees. Oxyplumboromeit, former bindheimite, shows elongated orange brown crystals, which built uo trees. The litharigte-zincite mix is analysed. The oxyplumboromeit is still open.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Litharge

Formula: 
PbO
Strunz: 
4.AC.20
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Unnamed Pb occurrence, Cucamonga Peak area, Cucamonga Wilderness, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Zincite

Formula: 
(Zn,Mn2+,Fe2+)O
Strunz: 
4.AB.20
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA