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Cerussite On Coronadite

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Cerussite On Coronadite

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.6 × 2 cm
Description

A very pretty iron stained reticulated group of cerussite crystals sit atop a small group of lustrous black coronadite stalactites

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

Coronadite

Formula: 
Pb(Mn4+6Mn3+2)O16
Strunz: 
4.DK.05a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Horse-Shoe shaft (Horseshoe Mine), Coronado Mine (Coronado Mining Co. property; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Coronado vein, Copper Plate Gulch, Copper Mountain District (Clifton-Morenci District), Shannon Mts, Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA
Earthstones Australia

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