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Smithsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2 × 1.3 cm
Description

Thick aerial and well exposed crystal of smithsonite with very good vitreous lustre and pinkish colour, on matrix. An aesthetic miniature from Willy Israel, a well-known Belgian collector of Tsumeb minerals who bought it in Tsumeb in 1978.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

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