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Hydrozincite

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Description
Locality: 
Bleyberg Smelter, Plombieres, Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

One piece of aprox 3 x 2 cm, richly covered with white needles of hydrozincite crystals on slag matrix from the old zinc-lead smelter of the Bleyberg Mine.

Ex. Erich Laskowski collection.

 

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

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