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Greenockite & Wavellite

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Greenockite & Wavellite

Dan Behnke collection
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Description
Locality: 
Siglo Veinte Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.1 × 1.6 cm
Description

ILLUSTRATED! You are bidding on a thumbnail sample with rich, beautiful hemimorphic crystals on greenockite in single crystals and trillings on matrix with sharp, single crystals of wavellite on quartz. An exceptional sample with hundreds of crystals. Illustrated in 2007 Photo Atlas of Minerals and Mineralien Welt, Nov/Dec 1996 p35. Comes with 5 original slides with two scanned and shown here. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

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

Wavellite

Formula: 
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.50
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White.
Type Locality: 
High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon, Devon, England, UK

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