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Crocoite

Henry Heuland collection

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Description
Locality: 
Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.7 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with excellent small crocoite crystals on vauquelinite matrix from this obscure and very old Brazilian locality for the mineral. This material was trimmed off a specimen collected in the late 1700s and auctioned by Henry Heuland in London in 1815! This locality is long closed and produced very few specimens! Excellent opportunity to acquire a classic species from a very obscure locality. My last good specimen!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Crocoite

Formula: 
Pb(CrO4)
Strunz: 
7.FA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Tsvetnoi Mine, Uspenskaya Mt, Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

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