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Mindat Short Description

Zinc Group.

As mm-sized irregular plates with cross-hatched striations and hummocky surfaces. A single particle from the Lunar regolith is ca. 1 micron in diameter.

Note: most of the localities listed here, notably those with "slag" or "smelter" ...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Mineral name has been known since antiquity and predates any formal descriptive publication.

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Zn

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Zn

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/zinc.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Zinc.shtml