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Smithsonite With Brochantite

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Smithsonite With Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 5 × 3.3 cm
Description

Delightful pale green cuprian smithsonite crystalshave formed in a vughy matrix over primary galena. Minor bright green brochantite seem to form empty shells around what was possibly cuprite crystals but now dissolved away.

Other associated minerals include malachite, quartz and cerussite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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