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Massicot

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Small orange and yellow crystal aggregates of massicot, many of them on a matrix of crystallized galena from Tsumeb. 

The species was labeled as R in Gebhard's Tsumeb II book: rare, several ocurrences with a few specimens.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Massicot

Formula: 
PbO
Strunz: 
4.AC.25
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Binsfeldhammer lead smelter slag locality, Stolberg, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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