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Schultenite from King County, Washington, USA; a second occurrence, and review
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2018
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Schultenite, PbHAsO4, known only from Tsumeb, Namibia, has been identified from a second occurrence: near North Bend, King County, Washington, USA. It occurs as euhedral crystals in a quartz-arsenopyrite-galena vein. It has a measured density of 6.07(3) g/cm3 and a calculated density of 6.079(4) g/cm3. The white to colourless crystals have a white streak, adamantine lustre, and fluoresce dull yellow under long wave ultraviolet light. Schultenite is monoclinic. Pa or P2/a; the unit cell parameters refined from the X-ray powder diffraction data are: a 5.827(3), b 6.743(3), c 4.847(3) Å, β 95.34(5)°; V 189.6(1) Å3; Z = 2; a:b:c = 0.8642:1:0.7188. The forms {010}, {001}, and {3̄22} were observed on the Washington schultenite crystals.
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