page_title: Carbonate mineral
section_title: Anhydrous carbonates
hierarchical_section_title: Carbonate mineral / Carbonate divisions / Anhydrous carbonates
caption_attribution_description: English: Rosasite, Smithsonite Locality: Silver Bill Mine, Costello Mine group (Costello claims), Gleeson, Turquoise District (Courtland-Gleeson District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise County, Arizona, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 4.8 x 4.1 x 2.4 cm. A rare and attractive rosasite from this small and seldom-seen locality. A Harold Urish note accompanying the piece says he self-collected it in 1988 (as he was pushing 70 years old) through the so-called Mystery Tunnel. This is, therefore, more recent than I had thought, having previously seen anything from here only in older collections. The matrix is sparkling white, microcrystallized smithsonite on rock. Ex. Harold Urish Collection. Deutsch: Rosasit, Smithsonit Fundort: Silver Bill Mine, Costello Mine group (Costello claims), Gleeson, Turquoise District (Courtland-Gleeson District), Dragoon Mts, Cochise County, Arizona, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org) Größe: 4.8 x 4.1 x 2.4 cm.
context_page_description: Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion, CO₃²⁻.
context_section_description: Calcite group: trigonal
  Calcite CaCO₃
  Gaspeite (Ni,Mg,Fe²⁺)CO₃
  Magnesite MgCO₃
  Otavite CdCO₃
  Rhodochrosite MnCO₃
  Siderite FeCO₃
  Smithsonite ZnCO₃
  Spherocobaltite CoCO₃
  Aragonite group: orthorhombic
  Aragonite CaCO₃
  Cerussite PbCO₃
  Strontianite SrCO₃
  Witherite BaCO₃
  Rutherfordine UO₂CO₃
  Natrite Na₂CO₃
caption: Smithsonite, Silver Bill Mine, Dragoon Mts, Cochise County, Arizona; 4.8 × 4.1 × 2.4 cm
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