Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Smithsonite & Aurichalcite

Views:
Watches:
CR521292

Smithsonite & Aurichalcite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Kelly Mine, Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm
Description

Colorful specimen of translucent, blue smithsonite crystals on matrix covered in blue-green aurichalcite.

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