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Gysinite-(Nd) & Cerussite

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Gysinite-(Nd) & Cerussite

Classic Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Sa Duchessa Mine, Oridda, Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

A wonderful sample, with lot of pale pink, very sharp crystals of this very rare neodymium mineral scattered over at least five areas of the sample. Gysinite-(Nd) is exclusive of two or three locality in the world but now seldom comes almost exclusively from this old abandoned mine in the Sardinian inland which, probably gave some of the best samples and this, as the perfection of the crystals, is one of the best I've ever seen.
You can well distinguish the faces and two crystals are twinned, intersecting a cross. Personally collected in 2001. Extremely rare, especially so rich of so sharp crystals! I think it is an absolutely unrepeatable specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gysinite-(Nd)

Formula: 
Pb(Nd,La)(CO3)2(OH)·H2O
Strunz: 
5.DC.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Kasompi Mine (Menda Mine; Kasompi Hill), Swambo, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Cerussite

Formula: 
PbCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

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