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Cuprian Smithsonite

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Cuprian Smithsonite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mines, Lavrion, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6.3 × 3.2 cm
Description

Lustrous, apple-green botryoidal smithsonite from Lavrion with good translucency. Such a fine smithsonite specimen at this size and with good color is very hard to come by from this classic locality.

ex Konstantinos Papaspyropoulos collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprian Smithsonite

Variety Of: 

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)CO3

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