Not many parts of Canada escaped glaciation and that is why we have so few secondary minerals. Here is a specimen from a deposit where the oxidation of the deposit escaped being scraped away by glaciers. It is composed of botryoidal light greenish smithsonite on relict matrix. This specimen was recovered when it was a prospect but I believe it is being mined now. Not beautiful but an interesting, unusual Canadian specimen of smithsonite!
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