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Tarnowitzite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.3 × 7 × 7 cm
Description

A nice small cabinet specimen with numerous glassy lustrous aragonite crystals var. tarnowitzite on matrix from the classic Tsumeb locale.

Some missing/broken crystals but nevertheless a really good example and of respectable size and overall quite good condition. Very nice portions of the specimen suitable for good photos.

Old timer from the 1940s and increasingly hard to get. 624 g (see T&C for overseas shipping costs).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tarnowitzite

Variety Of: 

Aragonite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz), Upper Silesia (Śląskie), Poland

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Best regards Roger

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