Hemimorphite, one of the common sorosilicates gets its name from its polar or hemimorphic crystal characteristic features.
Hemimorphite
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Hemimorphite is the commonly known sorosilicates which forms in oxidized zinc deposits and always occurs in clusters of radiating, acicular crystals.
HEMIMORPHITE
Overview: Hemimorphite is one of the more common sorosilicates. Hememorphite gets the name from its polar or hemimorphic crystals. The "hemi" means half while the "morph" means shape and thus hemimorphite is aptly named.
HEMIMORPHITE: (calamine) Zn4Si2O7[OH]2.H2O ; hydrous zinc silicate
The crystallographic polar symmetry of orthorhombic hemimorphite gave this mineral its name.
Enhancements
Hemimorphite is not known to be enhanced.
More information on gemstone enhancements.
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Hemimorphite
Hemimorphite is a zinc silicate named for the hemimorphic ("half-formed") way its crystals develop: faces that grow on one end are different in angle and position from the faces on the other end.
HEMIMORPHITE
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HEMIMORPHITE
Secondary enrichment of the primary ores took place throughout the Leadhills & Wanlockhead deposit and secondary lead species are common to both sites.
Hemimorphite (calamine) - Zn4(Si2O7)(OH)2Â-H2O
Lawsonite - CaAl2(Si2O7)(OH)2Â-H2O
Ilvaite - CaFe2+2Fe3+O(Si2O7)(OH)
Epidote group (has both (SiO4)4âˆ' and (Si2O7)6âˆ' groups) ...
Hemimorphite"Handsome pale crusts of hydrous zinc silicate.
"Herkimer Diamond" Quartz"Doubly terminated crystals from New York.
Labradorite"The butterfly of the feldspars has dazzling blue schiller.
5.7b Hemimorphite
5.7c Struvite
And now to the last (and the lowest) symmetry class of the orthorhombic system, the rhombic disphenoid.
hemimorphite ... smithsonite
hydrated zinc silicate ... ore of zinc Calaverite ... AuTe2 ... see sylvanite (Au,Ag)Te2 Calciphyre ... calci - silicate rocks
Color: yellow brown w/pink/light green/white & dark red zones ...
Pyrite (FeS2) oxidizes to goethite (FeO(OH)) or melanterite (FeSO4-7H2O), galena (PbS) oxidizes to anglesite (PbSO4) and cerussite (PbCO3), and sphalerite (ZnS) alters to hemimorphite (Zn4(Si2O7)(OH)2-(H2O)) and smithsonite (ZnCO3).
HEMIMORPHITE Light activation, aura balancing, emotional healing and communication, empathy, joy, channelling and mediumship ...
Hemimorphite Drusy: Greenish-Blue (Yunnan Province, China)
Jasper Drusy: Brownish-Red (Madagascar)
Onyx Drusy (Agate): Black (Brazil) *may be dyed
Psilomelane Drusy: Indigo Blue (New Mexico USA) ...
within each category: pyromorphite from Idaho to vanadinite from Morocco…calcite from Sweden to rhodochrosite from South Africa…tourmaline and kunzite from Afghanistan to epidote from Austria…aegirine from Malawi to hemimorphite ...
(Tourmaline, Hemimorphite)
Hexagonal System - A crystallization system having three equal horizontal axes intersecting at 120 degrees, plus a vertical axis of a different length. (Calcite, Beryl, Quartz, etc.) ...
 See also: Crystal, Mineral, Quartz, Crystals, Minerals
  
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