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Calcite & Hemimorphite

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Calcite & Hemimorphite

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Description
Locality: 
Copperthwaite Mine, Reeth, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.7 × 3.1 cm
Weight: 
118.00gr
Description

Vugs lined with white hemimorphite crystals overgrown by colourless calcite crystals. Under short wave UV light the crystals display bright pastel yellow fluorescence with moderate phosphorescence.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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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