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Native Silver Malachite Mimetite & Cerussite

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PJM38951

Native Silver Malachite Mimetite & Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 6.3 × 5.2 cm
Description

A decieving specimen which appears initially to be a copper coated with malachite. That is until you pick it up and llok a little closer.

This is a piece highly altered and oxidised silver and copper ore.

The core is a black oxide on to which malachite has formed, amongst the malachite are small crystalline masses and single bright native silver crystals accompanied by translucent to tan mimetite and cerussite crystals.

A fascinatingold time specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Treue Freundschaft Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Cerussite

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

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