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Paralaurionite & Lanarkite

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Paralaurionite & Lanarkite

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Description
Locality: 
Meadowfoot Smelter Slag Locality, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

A glassy, colorless tabular crystal of paralaurionite roofs clusters of diverging lanarkite crystals nestled within a cavity in the matrix. Others groups here and there. Nice specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Paralaurionite

Formula: 
PbCl(OH)
Strunz: 
3.DC.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lavrion District slag localities, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Lanarkite

Formula: 
Pb2(SO4)O
Strunz: 
7.BD.40
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Susanna Mine (Glennery Scar Vein; Susanna Vein [Scar Vein]; Portobello Vein; Humby Vein; Lead Vein), Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

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