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Greenockite & Galena

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Greenockite & Galena

Ted Bartels collection
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1 × 0.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on an exceptional small sample of greenockite from Sterling Hill with numerous tiny prisms growing on botryoidal sphalerite. Associated with numerous small, sharp cubes of galena which is also very rare from the locality. Really exceptional and unusual specimen from Sterling Hill. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Greenockite

Formula: 
CdS
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Bishopton tunnel, Bishopton, Strathclyde (Renfrewshire), Scotland, UK

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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