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Cadmian Wurtzite

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Cadmian Wurtzite

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Description
Locality: 
Agios Philippos Mine, Kirki, Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.2 × 4 cm
Description

Hexagonal pyramidal crystals of brown wurtzite with characteristic for the locality twinning fill matrix cavities all around this specimen.Crystals show sparkling glassy luster in daylight (hard to show in photos),intense fluorescence (orange-yellow) and also characteristic phosphorescence. Specimen is from the find i did at the locality presented at N.4-2014 issue of Rivista Mineralogica Italiana magazine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cadmian Wurtzite

Variety Of: 

Wurtzite

Formula: 
(Zn,Fe)S
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Formula: 
(Zn0.62Cd0.38)S

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