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Greenockite

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Description
Locality: 
Houdaille Quarry, Springfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 1.3 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with an exceptional, gem crystal of greenockite on prehnite from the Houdaille Quarry. This is the finest example from the small lot of greenockite specimens I got in a recent collection. The crystal is perfect and quite large, and collected by the mounter. 

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

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