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Linarite Cuprite Psm & Cerussite

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Linarite Cuprite Psm & Cerussite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.6 × 2 cm
Description

Collected in the late 1980's from the initial opencut at the South Mine which would become the edge of the Kintore Opencut.

The matrix of this specimen is a mixture of cerussite and iron and managanese oxides onto which radiating sprays of electric blue linarite crystals have formed, along with malachite psuedomorphs after octahedral cuprite and a final generation of twinned gemmy clear cerussite crystals.

Ex Jack & Dawn Leach Collection #665

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

Cuprite

Formula: 
Cu2O
Strunz: 
4.AA.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy
Earthstones Australia

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