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Fraipontite & Willemite

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Fraipontite & Willemite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.5 × 1.2 cm
Description

Colourless fraipontite/baileychlore spheres associated with colourless willemite, green duftite, cerussite and another bluish-green copper secondary mineral (kipushite?). 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Fraipontite

Formula: 
(Zn,Al)3((Si,Al)2O5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Vieille Montagne (Altenberg; Kelmisberg), Moresnet, Kelmis, Plombières-Vieille Montagne District (Plombières-Altenberg), Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium

Willemite

Formula: 
Zn2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vieille Montagne (Altenberg; Kelmisberg), Moresnet, Kelmis, Plombières-Vieille Montagne District (Plombières-Altenberg), Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium