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Hemimorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 6.1 × 4.1 cm
Description

Well developed, colourless yellowish hinted crystals of Hemimorphite lining a vug in gossan matrix. The transparent Hemimorphite is sharp edged, highly lustrous and almost excellent terminated. A super specimen found in the heydays of this great mine, probably the 1980s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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