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Smithsonite

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Smithsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Seddas Moddizzis Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 6 × 4 cm
Description

A craggy folded rust coloured limonite matrix richly vested with white dumbell shaped doubly terminated and globular smithsonite.

Very old specimen with a super contrast!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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