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Nadorite & Oxyplumboroméite

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Nadorite & Oxyplumboroméite

with antique label Staatl. Mineralien-Niederlage (Bergakademie) Freiberg, Sa. (Saxony)
Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Nador n'Bails Mine, Djebel Nador, Guelma District, Guelma Province, Algeria
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.9 × 2.3 cm
Description

Very good type locality specimen of this very rare lead-antimony halide with good, curved crystals, partly replaced by 'bindheimite'
(= oxyplumboroméite - not shown in pictures).
Also a very old specimen (late 19th/early 20th century) with an antique label of the Bergakademie Freiberg with handwriting of Otto Felix Edelmann, administrator from 1920 to 1952.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nadorite

Formula: 
PbSbClO2
Strunz: 
3.DC.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Nador n'Bails Mine, Djebel Nador, Guelma, Constantine Province, Algeria...

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