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Plattnerite & Smithsonite

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Plattnerite & Smithsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Preguiça Mine, Sobral da Adiça, Moura, Beja District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.3 × 3.1 cm
Description

Absolutely wonderful and very rich specimen!

Composed of hundreds of plattnerite crystals, well developed and complex, flat, prismatic, twinned...

White smithsonite is also present.

Collected: 
2021
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plattnerite

Formula: 
PbO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White