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Smithsonite With Wulfenite

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Smithsonite With Wulfenite

Former collection Christian Mavris
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Oltre il Colle, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 3.2 × 2 cm
Weight: 
43.00gr
Description

Rice grain shaped brown smithsonite crystals nicely laid on a bed of white hydromagnesite. Associated, half a dozen very thin yellow-orange wulfenite blades. Also some minor lack plattnerite spheroids and sprays throughout the specimen.

Very representative of the paragenesis. Best appreciated at 10x.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

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