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Rare Minerals
Introducing the "Rare Minerals" gallery which is part of our New Additions galleries. This gallery contains mineral specimens for sale including georgechaoite, kobokoboite, malhmoodite, montgomeryite, nadorite, and nepouite and more from places like Wind Mountain, Otero Co., New Mexico, United States, Kobokobo Pegmatite, Sud-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wilson Springs, Garland Co., Arkansas, United States, Tip Top mine, Custer Co., South Dakota, United States, Djebel Nador, Constantine prov., Algeria, and Bon Accord, Barberton dist., Mpumalanga prov., South Africa.
Nadorite
- $3,750.00 - Available
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- Locality
- Djebel Nador, Constantine prov., Algeria
- Formula
- PbSb3+O2Cl
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- $3,750.00
- Size
- 7 x 5 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Special Info
- Antique Specimen
Smoky brown, translucent crystal plates measuring 7mm on edge. This is an antique specimen once in the collection of Emile Bertrand circa 1890's. Betrand was an early pioneer in the study of optical mineralogy and introduced the "Betrand" lens to the petrology microscope. He was one of the founders of the French Mineralogy Society and went to school at the Paris School of Mines. Please see the Mineralogical Record label archive for more information (click here) .
Betrand's label along with a few other labels are shown in the provenance tab.
Nadorite
- Formula
- PbSb3+O2Cl
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Adamantine - Resinous
- Color
- brown, brownish yellow, grayish brown, yellow
- Streak
- yellow white
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 3.5-4
- Collection
- Willard L. Roberts Collection
- Special Info
- Antique Specimen
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