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Native Silver Smithsonite & Malachite

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Native Silver Smithsonite & Malachite

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Description
Locality: 
Blackwood Opencut, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

 A shallow elongated cavity has small platey sprays of native silver which has been partly coated with smithsonite and anglesite in a garnet sandstone matrix and associated with off white smithsonite and sprays of green malachite. Collected in the late 1980's from Blackwoods Opencut

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Smithsonite

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

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Earthstones Australia

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