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Crocoite & Dundasite

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Crocoite & Dundasite

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Description
Locality: 
Kapi Mine, North Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.4 × 6.5 × 5.8 cm
Weight: 
128.00gr
Description

Particular specimen from Tasmania with an aesthetic association of snow white dundasite and crocoite in a myriad of parkling crystals of a beautiful and intense orange red color present in different sides of the piece as shown by photos

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Dundasite

Formula: 
PbAl2(CO3)2(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
5.DB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia

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