Smithsonite

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A really sparkling, and unusual, crust of thick botryoidal smithsonite from this locality. Smithsonite from here tends to be dull in luster. This, however, from a new find, is sparkling as if covered by fine grains of sugar. The color in person is beige/tan. It is translucent, when strongly backlit, along the edges of the plate where the smithsonite hangs off a thin matrix of rock crust. The 3-dimensionality is really nice, as the crystals mound atop a hollow cast underneath. This is pristine on the display faces and comes from a small find of June 2009.