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Locality

Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States

Formula

ZnO

Size

SmCabinet 7.5x7x3cm

Dark to bright red platy, foliated Zincite. This is a very interesting specimen.

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Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States

Formula

ZnO

Size

SmCabinet 8x5x5cm

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Fluorescent

Bright red Zincite crystals to 5mm with Franklinite (black). Acquired by Hampson in 1945. See Hampson's Bio Click Here. The matrix is intensley flourescent orange.

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Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States

Formula

ZnO

Size

SmCabinet 6x5x4cm

Mass of deep red Zinclite with black Franklinite and white Calcite.

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Locality

Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States

Formula

ZnO

Size

SmCabinet 6.5x4x1cm

Deep, bright red Zincite.

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Locality

Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, United States

Formula

ZnO

Size

SmCabinet 8x5x3cm

A cool specimen with bright red crystals of Zincite to 1mm scattered on fracture with creamy tan Pyroaurite and unidentiifed white acicular crystals which occur in spherical aggregates - maybe Chlorophoenicite.

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Locality

Tolbachik Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia

Formula

NaZn₂Cu₂(AsO₄)₃1.5

Size

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Tagged

arsenate

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XRD Confirmed

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EDS Confirmed

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Type & Only Locality

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Author's Material

Bluish glassy micro crystals less than 0.5mm in former gas pockets of scoria, a volcanic rock. This is another new mineral from this locality and was part of Dr. Igor Pekov's collection when studying the mineral for description.

The exact locality is: Arsenatnaya fumarole, Second scoria cone, Northern Breakthrough, Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture), Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia