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Stephanite & Sphalerite

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Stephanite & Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Veta Grande Mine, Vetagrande Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 6 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Silvery stephanite crystals with black sphalerite and nice quartz sprays. The main stephanite crystals is on one side damaged the other stephanite have only very little chips.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stephanite

Formula: 
Ag5SbS4
Strunz: 
2.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Sphalerite

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