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Zaratite With Chromite

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Zaratite With Chromite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
3 × 7 × 1.7 cm
Weight: 
49.00gr
Description

Zaratite is a secondary nickel carbonate of uncertain and apparently variable composition. The specimen host emerald-green to olive-green crusts of zaratite on massive chromite matrix.

Comes with old label. "Nickelsmaragd" is an old german synonym for zaratite - Dana 6th, 306 (1892). This specimen is very very likely from Wood's Chrome Mine, Texas, Little Britain Township, State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zaratite

Formula: 
Ni3CO3(OH)4·4H2O
Strunz: 
5.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
Manolita mine, Teixidelo, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Chromite

Formula: 
Fe2+Cr3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Bastide de la Carrade, Gassin, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...

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