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Zinkenite

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Zinkenite

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Description
Locality: 
Itos Mine, Oruro City, Oruro Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 4 × 2.3 cm
Description

Bundles of black elongated zinkenite crystals on golden pyrite cubes

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zinkenite

Formula: 
Pb9Sb22S42
Strunz: 
2.JB.35a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Graf Jost-Christian Mine, Wolfsberg, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany