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Brianyoungite

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Brianyoungite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Sounion Mine #19, Sounion, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

This is a rare Zn-carbonate-sulfate mineral, forms tiny, pearly white, platy crystals with calcite, on pyrite-sphalerite matrix.  There are also good needle pyrite crystals in the sulfide matrix

Mineral Data
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Brianyoungite

Formula: 
Zn3(CO3,SO4)(OH)4
Strunz: 
5.BF.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic or Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Brownley Hill Mine (Bloomsberry Horse Level), Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK
Loranth Minerals

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