Mendipite
Mineral Pb3Cl2O2
Take care.
- Contains lead: Wash your hands after handling it, keep it away from children, and don't make dust.
About it
White to pale pink fibrous radiating masses of lead oxychloride, very heavy for a pale mineral. Named for the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Halide
- Formula
- Pb3Cl2O2
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 2.5–3
- Specific gravity
- 7.2–7.3
- Streak
- white
- Lustre
- adamantine (diamond-like), pearly
- Crystal system
- Orthorhombic
- Colours
- white, colourless, pinkish, yellowish
- Transparency
- translucent
- Cleavage and fracture
- perfect prismatic
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.