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What does hemimorphite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.
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The Sherman mine has produced small, well-formed, pale blue, acicular aurichalcite crystals associated with cerussite, hemimorphite, smithsonite, rosasite, and barite.
It is found in association with cerussite, calcite, hemimorphite, aurichalcite, malachite, willemite, and chrysocolla.
Local collectors had tentatively identified it as willemite or smithsonite, based perhaps on the occurrence of botryoidal blue hemimorphite at the same locality.
Associated minerals can include cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite, descloizite, caledonite, and others.
Associated Minerals include hemimorphite, galena and natrolite.
Hemimorphite, one of two minerals formerly called calamine in the U. S., a white silicate mineral that is an important zinc ore.

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