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Sphalerite

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CR941058

Sphalerite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Stolberg, Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 5 × 3.5 cm
Description

This is a very old specimen of gemmy clear and redbrown sphalerite crystals on quartz-siderit matrix with galena.

Specimen comes with a fantastic old handwriten label.

Beautiful !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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