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Zincaluminite & Serpierite

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Zincaluminite & Serpierite

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Description
Locality: 
Genna Zinc Smelter, Letmathe, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Beautiful intertwined acicular crystals (of cerussite?) totally replaced by very thin, milky white tabular crystals of zinkaluminite.
Together, also beautiful tufts of blue serpierite. Very beautiful specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Serpierite

Formula: 
Ca(Cu,Zn)4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Zincaluminite

Formula: 
Zn6Al6(SO4)2(OH)16 · 5H2O
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3
Colour: 
White, bluish-white, pale blue; colourless in transmitted light.
Type Locality: 
Hilarion Mine, Lavrion, Attica, Greece

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