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Crocoite

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Description
Locality: 
Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Zeehan, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5.3 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Thick aggregate of deep orange-red prismatic crystals of crocoite with very good lustre and without matrix.

Ex. Arnaud Gelders, #470.

 

Mineral Data
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Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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