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Calamine

ex Bergdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Rüping
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Description
Locality: 
Kelmis, Plombières, Liège Province, Belgium
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

Classic specimen from the collection of Bergdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Rüping, around the turn of the 19th/20th century: a shard of earthy/massive iron stained calamin with nice old label from the well-known Zn-Pb deposit of Moresnet, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calamine

Synonym Of: 

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0

Hydrozincite

Formula: 
Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Smithsonite

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

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