Mineral Species
plumbojarosite
Type Locality
No
Composition
Pb0.5Fe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6
Crystal System
Trigonal
Status at Tsumeb
Believed valid
Abundance
Very rare
Distribution
First and second oxidation zones
Paragenesis
Supergene
Entry Number
Species; TSNB282
General Notes
Plumbojarosite was first recognised and reported from the first oxidation zone, as a component of the type assemblage for fleischerite, where it presents as yellow-brown crystals intergrown with mimetite (Frondel and Strunz 1960).
Keller (1984) noted that plumbojarosite also occurs rarely with the lead silicate (alamosite) paragenesis in the second oxidation zone.
