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Smithsonite & Aurichalcite

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Smithsonite & Aurichalcite

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Description
Locality: 
(Siberia), Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Calamine over aurichalcite according to the ancent German label from Russia:
An early name calamine (named in 1747 by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (Vallerius)) that covered the zinc minerals smithsonite, hydrozincite and hemimorphite, which often occur in intimate association with each other.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

Formula: 
ZnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Streak: 
White

Aurichalcite

Formula: 
(Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6
Strunz: 
5.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Loktevskoye Mine (Loktevskii Mine), Upper Loktevka River, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia
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