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Anglesite On Lepidocrocite

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Anglesite On Lepidocrocite

Ex J & S Mommers

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Description

Anglesite is a highly desirable and moderately uncommon species in fine specimens from the famous and now-closed Tsumeb Mine. This excellent and very showy thumbnail consists of a very glassy, rhombohedral crystal on a finely bladed black lepidocrocoite matrix

This specimen also comes with the origin B Shelton Collection and Siber + Siber labels, which state the crystal was collected in 1988

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Anglesite

Formula: 
PbSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Parys Mountain Copper Mine, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom

Lepidocrocite

Formula: 
γ-Fe3+O(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
Orange
Type Locality: 
Zlaté Hory (Zuckmantel), Olomouc Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic
Earthstones Australia

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