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.
Associated Minerals
alamosite; fleischerite; itoite (?); melanotekite; mimetite
