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Massicot Litharge & Linarite

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Massicot Litharge & Linarite

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Description
Locality: 
Bau Arenas Mine, Tertenia, Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

Yellow crystal aggregates of massicot associated red litharge and blue linarite from Italy.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Massicot

Formula: 
PbO
Strunz: 
4.AC.25
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Binsfeldhammer lead smelter slag locality, Stolberg, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Litharge

Formula: 
PbO
Strunz: 
4.AC.20
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Unnamed Pb occurrence, Cucamonga Peak area, Cucamonga Wilderness, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

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