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Smithsonite & Calcite

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Smithsonite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Vouves, Limenaria, Thasos Island, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm
Description

Rare for the locality combination of white rhombohedral calcite crystals on botryoidal gray smithsonite on barite rich matrix. Color of smithsonite is due to galena inclusions, old miners called this smithsonite "lead calamine". From a German collection, comes with label, specimen collected in 2007.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithsonite

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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