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Calamine & Schalenblende

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Calamine & Schalenblende

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Description
Locality: 
Breinigerberg Mine, Breinig, Stolberg, Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

Typical ore-sample from the Breinigerberg Mine with calamine (mostly smithsonite), cerussite crystals, galena and some minor schalenblende.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calamine

Synonym Of: 

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0

Hydrozincite

Formula: 
Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5

Schalenblende

Mixture Of: 

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Wurtzite

Formula: 
(Zn,Fe)S
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5
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