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Greenockite

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Greenockite

Fluorescent

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.2 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very rare specimen, full of deep red greenockite crystals (analyzed) in matrix. Very nice, strong red fluorescent under UV-light. The specimen is really full of greenockite. Maybe one of the rarest things you can get rom Tsumeb.

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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