A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Smithsonite from Choix, Mexico |
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| Description | Smithsonite, ZnCO3 (zinc carbonate), comes in many different colors. The apple green to blue-green color is probably smithsonite's most well known color. The rarer purple to lavender samples are often quite spectacular. Smithsonite may also be yellow, white, tan, brown, blue, orange, peach, colorless, pink or red. Smithsonite is named for James Smithson, the founder of the Smithsonian Institution. This specimenis 7 cm across. |
| Location | Mexico. Near Choix. |
| Photographer | Twyla Baker. 2001-06-28. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection. |
| Key words | smithsonite, Mexico |
| Tech details | 361 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 945 |
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