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Cerussite & Pyromorphite On Malachite

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Cerussite & Pyromorphite On Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Rum Jungle, Batchelor, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 3.8 × 3 cm
Description

An very attractive combination specimen from Rum Jungle, this is predominantly bright yellow spherical mounds of pyromorphite crystals over which botyroidal malachite has been deposit and then finished with translucent off white cerussite crystals and groups.

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

Pyromorphite

Formula: 
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Zschopau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Malachite

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