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Dundasite & Crocoite

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Dundasite & Crocoite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm
Description

A shard of dark brown gossan is richly covered with masses of white sprays of dundasite, contrasted sharply by short orange crocoite crystals. this material was collected by Frank Mihajlowits in the early 1970's when he reopened the Adelaide Mine for specimen collecting. The specimen went to J rees Collection in Sydney and acquired in 2006 by the seller

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

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...
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