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Veszelyite & Hemimorphite

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Veszelyite & Hemimorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Laochang Mine, Gejiu County, Yunnan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

An unusual specimen of electric blue, vitreous, veszelyite sharp crystals which form volute and groups, sometime with above scattered tabular colorless glassy crystals of hemimorphite. Very very cute!

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Veszelyite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)2Zn(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.30
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Ocna de Fier (Vaskö-Moraviţa; Vaskö-Moravicza; Eisenstein), Ocna de Fier-Dognecea District, Banat Mts, Caraş-Severin Co., Romania

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

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