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Zincite

John McDonald and Geroge Elling collections
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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 5.4 × 2.5 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with fracture surface hosting hundreds of beautiful orange-red, hexagonal barrels of zincite with minor chlorophoenicite. Very nice, large sample that could be trimmed to produce several specimens. Former John McDonald and George Elling collections. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zincite

Formula: 
(Zn,Mn2+,Fe2+)O
Strunz: 
4.AB.20
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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