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Cuprian Smithsonite Gypsum & Wulfenite

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Cuprian Smithsonite Gypsum & Wulfenite

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Description
Locality: 
San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8.8 × 3.6 cm
Weight: 
414.00gr
Description

An exceptional specimen with hundreds of pale blueish green cuprian smithsonite with big, waterclear gypsum and a few tiny, yellow-orange wulfenite crystals.

A few scratches on the gypsum crystals, otherwise fine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprian Smithsonite

Variety Of: 

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)CO3

Gypsum

Formula: 
CaSO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
7.CD.40
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
White.

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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