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Raspite & Stolzite

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Raspite & Stolzite

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Description
Locality: 
Cordillera Mine, Tuena, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

This is an old sample that originally came from Wards. It consists mainly of sparkling clear to greenish yellow crystals of stolzite up to 1mm in size, although most are much smaller. Interspersed and under the stolzite are crystals of raspite up to 1mm. There are also a few patches of bright green cuprotungstite. The stolzite makes up over 50% of the sample with the remainder being rusty quartz, raspite and cuprotungstite in that order of abundance.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Raspite

Formula: 
Pb(WO4)
Strunz: 
4.DG.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

Stolzite

Formula: 
Pb(WO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cínovec / Zinnwald (Cinvald), Erzgebirge; Krusné Hory Mts, Saxony & Ústí Region (Bohemia; Böhmen; Boehmen), Germany & Czech Republic

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