Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Chloroxiphite is a rare olive green to pistacio green lead copper halide mineral with formula: Pb3CuO2Cl2(OH)2.It was first discovered in 1923 in the Mendip Hills Somerset England associated with mendipite. Like mendipite it is an oxychloride mineral and formed from the alteration of lead ore (galena) by secondary oxidation. In addition to mendipite it occurs with diaboleite parkinsonite wulfenite cerussite and hydrocerussite.
