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Smithsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Kengere Mine, Kolwezi, Lualaba, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.5 × 2.4 cm
Description

Old specimen from the collection of Eudore Toussaint (acquired in 1968) of elongated "rice grain" smithsonite crystals to 4 mm of cream-yellow colour, in a geode of quartz crystals with slight blue colour. Specimens from the Kengere Mine are very rare in collections.

With previous label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

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