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Hemimorphite Jordisite & Ilsemannite

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Hemimorphite Jordisite & Ilsemannite

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Description
Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 7.8 × 6 cm
Description

Lots of (partially encrusted) hemimorphite crystals, mostly growing as nice rosettes. Some tiny black crystals of jordisite (or maybe descloizite?) and a little pale blueish-white ilsemannite.
Some of the hemimorphite rosettes broken.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Jordisite

Formula: 
MoS2
Strunz: 
2.EA.30
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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