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Serpierite Smithsonite Linarite & Schulenbergite

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Serpierite Smithsonite Linarite & Schulenbergite

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Description
Locality: 
Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.1 × 3.6 × 2.9 cm
Description

Fine pale blue translucent acicular sprays of serpierite with balls of bladed greenish blue scilenbergite, intense light blue linarite crystaks and off white to pale yellow crystals of smithsonite. A complex specimen with many other species including some rather attractive micro pinkish to orange spessartine crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Serpierite

Formula: 
Ca(Cu,Zn)4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines (Kamareza Mines), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamariza), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Smithsonite

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

Linarite

Formula: 
PbCu(SO4)(OH)2
Strunz: 
7.BC.65
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Linares, Linares-La Carolina District, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain

Schulenbergite

Formula: 
(Cu,Zn)7(SO4,CO3)2(OH)10·3H2O
Strunz: 
7.DD.80
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Glücksrad Mine, Oberschulenberg, Bockswies veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
Earthstones Australia

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