Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Honessite

Views:
Watches:
ESM506423

Honessite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Green honessite pseudomorphs after millerite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Honessite

Formula: 
(Ni1-xFe3+x)(OH)2[SO4]x/2·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.35
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Linden, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA