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Crocoite from Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia

 
Crocoite from Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia

Crocoite from Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia

Crocoite from Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia

DESCRIPTION:No. 59528
Mineral:Crocoite
Locality:Red Lead Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
Description:Lustrous transparent-to-translucent elongated red-orange crocoite crystals over brown limonite gossan with white gibbsite on the bottom. Many of the crocoite crystals reveal that they are hollow on the incomplete termination ends. Collected ca. 1990
Overall Size:10x7x4 cm
Crystals:micro to 12 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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