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Wurtzite & Jordanite

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Wurtzite & Jordanite

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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: 
5.5 × 2.5 × 3 cm
Description

Well shaped and sharp exagonal bipyramidal wurtzite crystals with characteristic for the locality twins along with gray jordanite aggregates on matrix surface. Very representative for the locality specimen,comes from my find back in 2013 (this find published at N.4-2014 issue of Rivista Mineralogica Italiana).Specimen shows intense fluorescence and phosphorescence.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wurtzite

Formula: 
(Zn,Fe)S
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia

Jordanite

Formula: 
Pb14(As,Sb)6S23
Strunz: 
2.JB.30a
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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