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Raspite & Cuprotungstite

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Raspite & Cuprotungstite

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Description
Locality: 
Cordillera Mine, Tuena, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 1.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

Fine blocky to acicular raspite crystals, which are colourless on massive quartz with bright green cuprotingstite. On the back of the specimen in a limonite darkened area are a couple of small isolated stolzite modified octahedral shaped crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Raspite

Formula: 
Pb(WO4)
Strunz: 
4.DG.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Cuprotungstite

Formula: 
Cu2(WO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.GB.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
La Paz, Mun. de La Paz, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico
Earthstones Australia

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