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Cerussite On Malachite

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Cerussite On Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Description

An attractive group of tan coloured reticulated cerussite crystals on botyroidal malachite with minor yellow to orabge pyromorphite spheroids. Of interest are a number of micro black tuffed groups of radiating acicular black crystals that have not as yet been indentified.

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

Malachite

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

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