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| Description | |
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| Type Locality: | Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England, UK is the type locality for Sweetite |
| Habit: | Tetragonal bipyramids |
| Colour: | Colourless-white, creamy |
| Quality of samples: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
| Rarity at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD SEM-EDS |
| Analysis Reference: | NHM London |
| References | |
| References: | [Min.Mag.(1984) 48, 267-269; Rust, S. Seltene Mineralien aus dem Steinbruch Milltown bei Ashover LAPIS Mineralienmagazin 1994, 12, p.13-17, 58]; Ford, T., A. Sarjeant & M. Smith (1993): The minerals of the Peak district of Derbyshire. UK Jour. Mines & Minerals 13, 16-55. |
| Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Ashoverite Calcite Ettringite Fluorite Hydrozincite Smithsonite Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2) Wülfingite |
| Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Sweetite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England, UK |
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