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Willemite Var Troostite

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Willemite Var Troostite

ex collection Eugen Kreidler, ex Möckel
Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 2.3 cm
Description

Brown troostite grains and crystals in/on pink calcite (not 'kutnahorite' as originally labeled). Nice green fluorescence.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Willemite

Formula: 
Zn2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vieille Montagne (Altenberg; Kelmisberg), Moresnet, Kelmis, Plombières-Vieille Montagne District (Plombières-Altenberg), Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium

Troostite

Variety Of: 

Willemite

Formula: 
Zn2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Formula: 
(Zn,Mn)2SiO4
Hardness: 
0.0

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