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Osarizawaite Chrysocolla & Wulfenite

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Osarizawaite Chrysocolla & Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
Whim Creek Mine, Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 11.6 × 11.3 cm
Description

A striking specimen of pale greenish yellow osarizawaite over a deep coffee brown botyroidal gossan topped with masses of malachite spheres relaced by chrysocolla and following by bright yellow wulfenite diapyramids and at one edge a group of azurite crystals, a rosettes completely repalced by chrysocolla again.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Osarizawaite

Formula: 
Pb(Al,Cu)3(SO4)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BC.10
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Osarizawa mine, Kazuno City, Akita Prefecture, Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Chrysocolla

Formula: 
Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4·nH2O (x < 1)
Strunz: 
9.ED.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5

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
Earthstones Australia

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