Item talk:Q162341
From geokb
Mindat Short Description
Crocoite is commonly found as crystals, usually as long prismatic crystals and more rarely as equant crystals, but are most often poorly terminated, and are usually of a bright hyacinth-red color, which are translucent and have an adamantine to vitreou...
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
Originally described as red crystalline lead ore, without a mineral name: Lehmann J G (1767) Nachricht von einem neu endechten Bleyerze. Neues Hamburg Magazin 7, 336-348 Beudant F S (1832) Crocoïse, plomb chromaté, in Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, 2nd Edition, (Paris) 669-670
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
Pb(CrO4)
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
Pb2+Cr6+O4
