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RASPITE [1 record]

Record 1 2016-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Metals Mining
  • Economic Geology
DEF

A brownish-yellow lead tungstate ...

OBS

Intense adamantine luster; monoclinic; small, elongated, tabular crystals, usually twinned. From Broken Hill, New South Wales.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Mines métalliques
  • Géologie économique
CONT

Il existerait [...] un tungstate de Pb [plomb] monoclinique qui appartiendrait à [la] série [des tungstates] et qui serait une espèce dimorphe de la stolzite [...], c'est la «raspite».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mineralogía
  • Minas metálicas
  • Geología económica
DEF

Tungstato de plomo [...] que cristaliza en el sistema monoclínico.

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