Tarbuttite
Kabwe Mine, Kabwe, Kabwe District, Central Province, Zambia
2.6 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm. A fine thumbnail specimen of the rare zinc phosphate Tarbuttite which is loaded with sharp, transparent to translucent, colorless triclinic tabular crystals on gossan matrix. The largest crystal measures 8 mm, which is good size for Tarbuttite. The Broken Hill mine (also called the Kabwe mine), in Zambia, not Australia, is the ...
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