Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Hemimorphite & Coronadite

Views:
Watches:
ONE215817

Hemimorphite & Coronadite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Qaleh-Zari Mine, Nehbandan County, South Khorasan Province, Iran
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 6 × 3.5 cm
Description

Nice cluster of well-formed radiating, tabular hemimorphite perfect tranparent crystals. The locality of extraction is quite rare, if you compare it to much more common mexican samples. Added value to the sample is given by the presence of rare botryoidal dark coronadite spheres. An absolute rarity for collectors of minerals of that part of the world, adding to this the overall good shape and the natural beauty of the piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

Coronadite

Formula: 
Pb(Mn4+6Mn3+2)O16
Strunz: 
4.DK.05a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Horse-Shoe shaft (Horseshoe Mine), Coronado Mine (Coronado Mining Co. property; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Coronado vein, Copper Plate Gulch, Copper Mountain District (Clifton-Morenci District), Shannon Mts, Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA
CAIROLI FINE MINERALS

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

We are professional resellers, and the guaranteed quality of each sale, and customer satisfaction, is our goal. We are not responsible for any damage suffered by the sample in transit. With the exception that the package arrives in poor external condition. We pack all the samples in a way and with super tested professional systems. But in any case you declare with a video, the opening of the package. The return of a sample for various reasons. It must be approved by us. And in any case the reimbursement will be net of expenses. Photos: All the photos we posted as examples were taken with professional cameras. Photos are not retouched with software, to enhance or alter the appearance of the samples. We try to offer photos, more realistically closer to the reality of the sample.