A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Minium, Pb3O4, the from Caballos Mountains |
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| Description | Minium (Pb3O4), forms when lead minerals are highly oxidized. It often forms as a light or reddish coating on other Pb minerals. However, some specimens are exceptional and boast a bright red color with a high adamantine luster. The most spectacular specimens come from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Unfortunately, these specimens formed during a mine fire and some mineralogists do not consider them natural. |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico ▹ Sierra. Caballos Mountains. |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2001-02-14. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #384. |
| Key words | minium, New Mexico |
| Tech details | 173 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 58 |
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