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Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

 
Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite from Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)

DESCRIPTION:No. 69915
Mineral:Tarbuttite with Pyromorphite
Locality:Kabwe (Broken Hill), Central Province, Zambia (formerly Southern Rhodesia) (Type Locality for Tarbuttite)
Description:Lustrous transparent brownish tarbuttite crystals covering brown limonite gossan with slender pyromorphite crystals. For information on Gordon collecting these tarbuttite specimens, see first paragraph on page 264, in Nov.-Dec. 1974 Mineralogical Record. Ex. Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia; collected by Sam Gordon (1897-1952) in December, 1929 on the Fourth Vaux Academy Expedition
Overall Size:6.2x4x2 cm
Crystals:1-6 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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