Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Hinsdalite

Views:
Watches:
SKY810320

Hinsdalite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Rhodope, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

Brown microcrystals of the rare mineral hinsdalite (labeled in the box as "orpheite") from Rhodope mine.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hinsdalite

Formula: 
PbAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
8.BL.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Golden Fleece Mine, Lake City, Lake City District (Lake District), Hinsdale Co., Colorado, USA

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps