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Wulfenite With Hemimorphite

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Wulfenite With Hemimorphite

Former collection Christian Mavris
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Description
Locality: 
Oltre il Colle, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
30.00gr
Description

Rich miniature consisting of hundreds of colorless elongated hemimorphite crystals covering rather large canary yellow wulfenite crystal on a geode of powdery hydrozincite.

Very representative of the paragenesis. Best appreciated at 10x, this material is scarcely spotted on the market nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wulfenite

Formula: 
Pb(MoO4)
Strunz: 
7.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Bleiberg District, Gailtaler Alpen & Karnische Alpen, Carinthia, Austria

Hemimorphite

Formula: 
Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O
Strunz: 
9.BD.10
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

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