Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Bayldonite

Views:
Watches:
RSL569567

Bayldonite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2 × 1.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

Group of sharp bayldonite green crystals, with transparence. Contrasting on the white matrix peppered by small but perfect bayldonite crystals. From this classic worldwide locality.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bayldonite

Formula: 
PbCu3(AsO4)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
8.BH.45
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Mount's Bay District, Cornwall, England, UK...