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Tarbuttite

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Tarbuttite

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Description
Locality: 
Hudson Bay Mine, Salmo, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 1.3 cm
Description

White salmoite crystal aggregates from the "type locality" in Salmo, British Columbia, Canada. Salmoite is an ill-defined substance found with spencerite and hopeite and probable equal to tarbuttite.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tarbuttite

Formula: 
Zn2(PO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BB.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Broken Hill), Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia

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