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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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Well shaped hexagonal pyramidal wurtzite crystals of glassy luster and characteristic for the locality twinning set in matrix cavity together with lead gray jordanite.Smaller crystals also at specimen's back.

Specimen shows fluorescence and phosphorescence under LWUV and comes from seller's find of this mineral back in 2013. This find is reported at N.4-2014 issue of Rivista Mineralogica Italiana and is the best known of this mineral at the mine.

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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