vaterite

TSNB363

Species

Title

vaterite

Composition

CaCO3

Crystal System

Hexagonal

Status at Tsumeb

Believed valid

Abundance

Extremely rare

Distribution

Second oxidation zone.

Paragenesis

Supergene.

Type Locality

No

Entry Type

Species TSNB363

Vaterite has only been reported from Tsumeb on one occasion as an associated mineral on the type material for plumboselite. The specimen is believed to originate from the second oxidation zone "… in the vicinity of 30 Level" (Kampf et al. 2011).

clausthalite; mimetite; plumboselite; smithsonite