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Crocoite

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Description
Locality: 
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, West Coast Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.3 × 3.7 cm
Description

A super colourful specimen as intense orange elongated crystals of lead-chromate crocoite The specimen consists by nearly pure crocoite with only less matrix. The single crystals are well developed, nice but indistinct striated and partially terminated, what is rather seldom for this species. A very good piece.

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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...
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