Mineralpedia Details for Glaucocerinite
Glaucocerinite
Named for the Greek words glaukos and kirinos, meaning roughly “gray” or “bluish-gray” and “waxen”, respectively, in reference to the minerals common color and luster. Glaucocerinite is a rare mineral that occurs in Greece, the United States, Germany, France, and Austria, and it occurs as a secondary mineral on museum specimens of a copper-zinc sulfide.
Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/glaucocerinite.pdf
- Formula
- Zn1-xAlx(SO4)x/2(OH)2·nH2O
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Aggregates, Nodular, Radial
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Waxy
- Color
- white, sky blue, gray, greenish, brownish
- Streak
- bluish white
- Class
- Trigonal
- Hardness
- 1
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Glaucocerinite from Laurium, Attika, Greece
Light pastel green aggregates of tiny botryoids across matrix.
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