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Hydrozincite & Calcite

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Hydrozincite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Old Luganure Mine, Glendasan, County Wicklow, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.7 × 5.6 cm
Weight: 
104.00gr
Description

Calcite matrix with a coating of white hydrozincite. under short wave UV light the calcite produces a red colour and the hydrozincite a blue/white colour. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydrozincite

Formula: 
Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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