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Sphalerite

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Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Picher Mine, Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 9.5 × 5.5 cm
Description

A fabulous old tri-state sphalerite specimen, with not only a huge, wonderfully formed crystal dominating the specimen, but in the foreground, a field of deep red "ruby-jack" sphalerite, so lustrous they look wet!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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