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Otavite & Willemite

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Otavite & Willemite

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Description
Locality: 
Su Elzu, Ozieri, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

A very nice sample with sharp single crystals from the mine of Su Elzu. This now defunct small mine, in the past, gave outstanding samples, almost certainly among the best in the world, of the rare cadmium carbonate otavite. More, white, sharp, perfect, rhombohedral crystals, are spread over all the sample, nice and rare so rich.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Otavite

Formula: 
CdCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region (Oshikoto), Namibia

Willemite

Formula: 
Zn2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AA.05
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Vieille Montagne (Altenberg; Kelmisberg), Moresnet, Kelmis, Plombières-Vieille Montagne District (Plombières-Altenberg), Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium

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