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Raspite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Tungsten Queen Mine, Tungsten, Hamme, Vance County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug hosting orange-brown crystals of raspite from the only NC locality for the mineral and one of four localities in the USA. This find is extremely rare and only four specimens were recovered. Analyzed specimen. One of the rarest minerals from my home state. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Raspite

Formula: 
Pb(WO4)
Strunz: 
4.DG.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill Proprietary Mine (Proprietary Mine; BHP Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

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