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Smythite

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Description
Locality: 
U S Borax Mine, Boron, Kern County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.1 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with three sprays of smythite after some unknown precursor in vugs with clinoptilolite-Na. Material collected and analyzed by Fred DeVito. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smythite

Formula: 
(Fe,Ni)3+xS4 (x=0-0.3)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
dark gray
Type Locality: 
State Route 37 road cut (6), Bloomington, Monroe Co., Indiana, USA

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