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What does crocoite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A rare red mineral; lead chromate, PbCrO4.
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Next you will encounter lustrous orange crystals of crocoite from the Ural Mountains.
This field trip featured stops at a dozen diverse collecting locales, including the famous Adelaide and Red Lead crocoite mines near Dundas.
Beryozovskoe is also the type locality for crocoite, the first new mineral discovered and described within the Russian territory.
In March they went to the regular dumps of the Argent Lead and Silver mine for vanadinite, pyromorphite, and crocoite.
Associated with crocoite at Berezovsk are the closely allied minerals phoenicochroite and vauquelinite.

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