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Smithsonite On Aurichalcite

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Smithsonite On Aurichalcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 5.8 × 5 cm
Description

Beautiful specimen with dozens of nice, 'rice-grain'-shaped, turquoise-colored smithsonite crystals, colored by inclusions of aurichalcite, on a layer of botryoidal aurichalcite. Very nice contrast with dark brown manganese oxides ('psilomelane').
The tiny white spheres might be dundasite or hydrozincite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

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