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Otavite

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Description
Locality: 
Su Elzu, Ozieri, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

Exceptional sample with an incredible amount of white sharp crystals with rhombohedral or sometimes "spherical" shape due to the twinning of several crystals are scattered on the sample. Few specimens have been found at the end of the last century and it is extremely rare now to find such rich ones. The small mine of Su Elzu, a now "defunct" location, in the past decades of the past century they gived samples, almost certainly among the best in the world, of the rare cadmium carbonate, otavite.  Personally found (1999).

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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

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