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Raspite

Ex Jack & Dawn Leach Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm
Description

A series of orange to brown translucent raspite crystals in a rough line across a piece of black contrasting gossan from Proprietary Mine.

Raspite is named after Charles Rasp the discoverer of the Broken Hill deposits.

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
Earthstones Australia

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