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Sphalerite & Johannsenite

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Sphalerite & Johannsenite

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Description
Locality: 
Iron Cap Mine, Black Peak, Gila County, Arizona, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Lustrous dark yellow-brown complex sphalerite crystals up to 1 cm associated with long-prismatic greenish-brown johannsenite crystals. Very nice specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Johannsenite

Formula: 
CaMn2+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Franklin Mine, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA
Cartils Minerals

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