Smithsonite with Fluorite
available$ 300
- Locality
- Sheshodonnell East Mine, Carron, The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland
- Minerals
- Fluorite, Smithsonite
- Dimensions
- 11 x 7 x 5 cm
- Size class
- Cabinet
- SID
- SV531
Vuggy specimen of bright yellow cadmium Smithsonite and purple Fluorite. Botryoidal, satiny Smithsonite is present in open vugs all around the specimen. The Sheshodonnell East Mine is a small former zinc mine that was worked in about 1862-63 (per MINDAT). The miners were lookng for the sphalerite and the smithsonite was placed in the dumps, and collected about 100 years later. Ex. Tim Sherburn collection.