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Smithsonite Psm Fluorite

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Smithsonite Psm Fluorite

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attica, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 7 × 3 cm
Description

Very interesting pseudomorph of botryoidal smithsonite cubic shaped casts after dissolved fluorite cubes. Back side of the specimen is also covered by smithsonite coated by a thin limonite film.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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