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Dundasite

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Dundasite

Ex Brian Shelton Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Peelwood Mine, Peelwood, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3.1 × 2.2 cm
Description

The mine silver lead copper mines in the Peelwood area closed around 1915 after some 40 years of intermittent operation. This old time specimen is comprised of a cavity in altered sulphides being adorned with white sprays of  wet looking dundasite, an uncommon lead aluminum carbonate

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Dundasite

Formula: 
PbAl2(CO3)2(OH)4·H2O
Strunz: 
5.DB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Adelaide Mine (Adelaide Pty Mine; Adelaide Proprietary Mine), Dundas mineral field, Zeehan District, Tasmania, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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