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Tarnowitzite

Ex Dr. Fuchs, Sechtem, Bonn

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Description
Locality: 
Oujda-Angad Prefecture, Oriental Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 7 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
340.00gr
Description

Sharp, lustrous pearly white tarnowitzite - resp. aragonite var. plumboan - crystals with typical pseudo-hexagonal shape in a little vug.
Some of the crystals are light yellowish with white caps. Accompanied by galena.

I did not find comparable tarnowitzite specimens from morocco in the web, in my opinion this is very possibly a tsumeb specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tarnowitzite

Variety Of: 

Aragonite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz), Upper Silesia (Śląskie), Poland

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