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Mawbyite & Beudantite

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Mawbyite & Beudantite

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Description
Locality: 
Kintore Open Cut, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.2 × 3.8 × 2.7 cm
Description

A block of vughy garnet sandstone from the Kintore opencut, has a rich covered of reddish to brown mawbyite, a rare lead, iron, zonc arsenate and yellowish green contrasting crystals from the beudantite segnitite group. Kintore Opencut is the type locality for both mawbyite and segnitite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mawbyite

Formula: 
Pb(Fe3+,Zn)2(AsO4)2·2(OH,H2O)
Strunz: 
8.CG.15
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Beudantite

Formula: 
PbFe3(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Louise Mine, Bürdenbach, Altenkirchen, Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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