Big Chief Mine, Percha Creek, Hillsboro, Hillsboro Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico
Small cabinet - 6.6 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
42 grams
Ex Dan Evanich
Specimen status: Reserved
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Abundant, black kentrolite
microcrystals associated with nearly colorless and
generally incomplete vanadinite crystals. Kentrolite is a
globally uncommon lead manganese sorosilicate - Pb2 Mn 3+ 2 (Si 2 O 7 )O 2 ,
for which Mindat lists only about twenty localities at
which the species has been found. Ex Dan Evanich.
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