Tarbuttite with Smithsonite
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Tarbuttite with Smithsonite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 3 x 3 x 2.5 cm - Thumbnail
- Formula
- Zn2(PO4)(OH) (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Kabwe mine, Broken Hill, Kabwe dist., Central Province, Zambia
- Tagged
- phosphate
Colorless to white Tarbuttite crystals on bubbly Smithsonite. Ex. British Museum with tag. As shown on the tag it is from the Ashcroft collection, circa 1929.
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
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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