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Smithsonite With Fluorite

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Smithsonite With Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Sheshodonnell, The Burren, County Clare, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm
Description

An example of very rare yellow cadmium smithsonite from probably the best smithsonite locality in the British Isles. The waste tips at the locality have now been bulldozed down the mine shaft, So no new material will be appearing on the market. This specimen is one of the much less common examples with purple fluorite that contrasts nicely with the cadmium yellow.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Peter Crozier Minerals