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Cumengeite & Pseudoboleite

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Cumengeite & Pseudoboleite

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Description
Locality: 
Boleo District, Santa Rosalía, Mulegé Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Nice small-miniature with cumengeite twinned groups of crystals and a greater, blue, pseudoboleite crystal, (easily a epitaxial growth of pseudoboleite on boleite crystal)  from the type locality for the species. Good specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cumengeite

Formula: 
Pb21Cu20Cl42(OH)40·6H2O
Strunz: 
3.DB.20
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Sky-blue
Type Locality: 
Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Mun. de Mulegé, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico

Pseudoboleite

Formula: 
Pb31Cu24Cl62(OH)48
Strunz: 
3.DB.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Santa Rosalía (El Boleo), Boleo District, Mun. de Mulegé, Baja California Sur (BC Sur), Mexico

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