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Jamesonite

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Description
Locality: 
Noche Buena Mine, Noche Buena, Mazapil Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.5 × 2.2 cm
Description

Lovely lead grey acicular crystals of jamesonite almost covering the entire specimen on a mostly massive jamesonite matrix. Some of the jamesonite in the matrix is quite compacted and appears as narrow fibrous bands. A nice piece for the species or locality collector.

Probably from material material collected in the 1970s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jamesonite

Formula: 
Pb4FeSb6S14
Strunz: 
2.HB.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Cornwall, England, UK
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