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Plattnerite On Calcite & Hemimorphite

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Plattnerite On Calcite & Hemimorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Hidden Treasure Mine, Ophir, Tooele County, Utah, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.3 × 2 cm
Description

A thin gossan matrix is covered in snow white bright botyroidal calcite. Over this calcite bed are small clusters of black needles of plattnerite and sharing the space over the calcite are sprays of reddish transparent hemimorphite crystal sprays

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Plattnerite

Formula: 
PbO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Strathclyde (Lanarkshire), Scotland, UK

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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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