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Crocoite & Dundasite

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Crocoite & Dundasite

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Description
Locality: 
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
4 × 11.8 × 7.7 cm
Description

Jackstraw groups of light orange acicular crocoite crystals on a contrasting coffee brown gossan material. The majority of the crocoite crystals are hollow and many are partilly replaced or coated by pale orangey yellow gibbsite. on the side and back of the specimen shorter crocoite crystals have been completely repalced by gibbsite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Dundasite

Formula: 
PbAl2(CO3)2(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
5.DB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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