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Cerussite With Hydrozincite

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QRI966965

Cerussite With Hydrozincite

Former collection Christian Mavris
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Description
Locality: 
Zorzone, Vedra Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
131.00gr
Description

Rich miniature featuring over half a dozen of pale yellow, lustrous cerussite crystals cropping out of a pale hydrozincite layer. Besides that already neat constrast, underneath the hydrozincite there is a thick bed of possibly glassy hemimorphite crystals. All of this populate a drusy within gossan matrix.

An older specimen of mine, dated back to the early 2000s.

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

Hydrozincite

Formula: 
Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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