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Cerussite On Aurichalcite

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Cerussite On Aurichalcite

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Description
Locality: 
Evelyn Mine, Pine Creek, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm
Description

An open curving cavity is lined with dark bluish green tuffed sprays of aurichalcite with numerous small,ceruusite crystals scattered over the aurichalcite and second cavity on the back of the specimen is lined with glassy hemimorphite crystals again with small cerussite crystals

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

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
Earthstones Australia

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