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Smithsonite & Calcite

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Smithsonite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Jean Baptiste Mine, Kamariza, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion District, Attica, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 5.9 × 5.1 cm
Description

A highly lustrous, caramel-brown smithsonite layer of packed crystals is covering a brown calcite. the middle scalenohedron is beautiful and is leaping out of the center of the specimen, adding to the aesthetics of this fine and interesting Lavrion smithsonite.

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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