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Smithsonite With Hemimorphite

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Smithsonite With Hemimorphite

ex coll. Wilhelm Maucher (1879-1930)
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 1.5 cm
Description

Interesting little specimen of colorless to brownish tinted hemimorphite on brown zonar-colored smithsonite crystals. From the Maucher collection before 1930.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

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