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EB97AL9: Elongated crystals of Tarbuttite with sharp faces and edges, on a limonite matrix. Translucent, white and covered with small crystals of a second generation of lenticular crystals of the same Tarbuttite, with a color between reddish and creamy due to inclusions. The specimen, from the type locality for the species, is accompanied by a card from the prospector and collector, Dr. K.J. Reid, in which the date of the find is handwritten and signed.
Kabwe Mine (Broken Hill Mine), Kabwe (Kabwe-Ka Mukuba), Kabwe District, Central Province Zambia (07/1976)
Specimen size: 5 × 3.8 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 1.50” × 0.79”
Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.4 cm = 0.43” × 0.16”
Type locality
Minor fluorescence short UV
Former collection of K.J. Reid
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