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Smithsonite On Fluorite

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Smithsonite On Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mines, Lavrion, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

Smithsonite with fluorite is a very rare combination that most Lavrion collectors are looking for. The specimens at this seller page come from old finds in Sounion.

Pale purplish, cubic crystals of fluorite are partly to completely covered with small crystals of lustrous, brown smithsonite.

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

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