Mineralpedia Details for Tarbuttite
Tarbuttite
- Formula
- Zn2(PO4)(OH)
- Crystal System
- Triclinic
- Crystal Habit
- Wheat Sheaf, Striated, Prismatic
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Vitreous - Pearly
- Color
- brown, colorless, green, white, light yellow
- Streak
- white
- Class
- Triclinic - Pinacoidal
- Fracture
- Brittle - Uneven
- Hardness
- 4
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Tarbuttite from Kabwe mine, Broken Hill, Kabwe dist., Central Province, Zambia
Murky white or colorless 1-3mm crystals of Tarbutite.
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