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Hydrozincite On Hemimorphite

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Hydrozincite On Hemimorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Evelyn Mine, Pine Creek, Victoria-Daly Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm
Description

Snow white acicular groups of hydrozincite crystals on a bed of bladed hemimorphite crystals from the Evelyn Mine in far northern Australia. Associated with the hemimorphite are small attractive spheres of blue rosasite and mats of acicular aurichalcite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hydrozincite

Formula: 
Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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
Earthstones Australia

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