Phoenicochroite
Mineral Pb2O(CrO4)
Take care.
- Contains lead: Wash your hands after handling it, keep it away from children, and don't make dust.
- Toxic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't lick or taste it, and don't make dust.
About it
Deep red crusts and tiny crystals, darker and redder than crocoite, in oxidized lead ore with chromium. First described from Berezovsk in the Urals; also found at Tiger, Arizona.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Chromate
- Formula
- Pb2O(CrO4)
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 2.5–3
- Specific gravity
- 7–7.1
- Streak
- brick red
- Lustre
- adamantine (diamond-like), resinous
- Crystal system
- Monoclinic
- Colours
- dark red, red, orange-red
- Transparency
- translucent
- Cleavage and fracture
- perfect in one direction
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.