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Hydrozincite

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Hydrozincite

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Description
Locality: 
Darreh Zanjir Mine, Taft District, Yazd Province, Iran
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 7.5 × 5 cm
Description

Snow white hydrozincite aggregates in vugs of a brown limonite matrix.

Rich old-time specimen found by Dr. H.-J . Wilke during his trips in Persia on the end of the 1970s

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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