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Queitite & Gyrolite

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Description
Locality: 
Lucky Cuss Mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 3.8 × 2.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature sample with rich clusters of quietite ps after alamosite with balls of gyrolite on quartz. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Queitite

Formula: 
Pb4Zn2(SO4)(SiO4)(Si2O7)
Strunz: 
9.BF.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

Gyrolite

Formula: 
NaCa16Si23AlO60(OH)8·14H2O
Strunz: 
9.EE.30
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
The Storr, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, North West Highlands (Inverness-shire), Scotland, UK

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