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Formula: Pb8O5(OH)2Cl4
Halide
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Specific gravity: 7.35 measured, 7.53 calculated
Hardness: 3
Streak: Pale yellow
Colour: Pale yellow, yellow-orange to greyish yellow
Solubility: soluble in dilute mineral acids
Common impurities: Ca,Cu,Fe,Zn
Environments
Metamorphic environments
Hydrothermal environments
Localities
At the Endeavor Mine, Cobar, Robinson county, New South Wales, Australia, blixite is found as masses to 100 microns
across in the supergene-sulphide zone with
mendipite
and anglesite, which it appears to replace
(AJM 11-2.89, HOM).
At the Lavrion slag localities, Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece, blixite is a reaction product in slag
immersed in sea water
(HOM).
At the type locality, the Långban mine, Långban Ore District, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden, blixite occurs in
hausmannite-rich dolomite and
manganophyllite skarn in a
metamorphosed iron-manganese orebody,
associated with dolomite,
hausmannite, copper and
manganophyllite (AM 45.908, Mindat, HOM). It also occurs in fractures in
braunite-hausmannite ore
(Dana).
At the Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK, blixite has been reported with
brucite and hydrocerussite
(HOM), but its presence in this area has been disputed
(JRS 13.3.46).
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