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Wulfenite Mimetite & Cerussite

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Wulfenite Mimetite & Cerussite

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Description
Locality: 
San Francisco Mine, Cerro Prieto, Cucurpe Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 3 cm
Description

Rather nice specimen with orange-brown wulfenite and graish-green mimetite crystals with colorless cerussite (also twins).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Mimetite

Formula: 
Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Strunz: 
8.BN.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Treue Freundschaft Mine, Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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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