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Sphalerite Rhodochrosite & Boulangerite

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Sphalerite Rhodochrosite & Boulangerite

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Description
Locality: 
Trepča, Mitrovica District, Kosovo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.5 × 7.8 × 6.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Amazing combination!

Excellent, well terminated, glossy black sphalerite crystals (measuring up to 1.5 cm) associated with slender spiky, colourless quartz and pinkish rhodochrosite balls with minor chalcopyrite from the famous Trepča complex, Kosovo.

One side of this gorgeous specimen is covered by thousands tiny and fibrous crystals of metallic-grey, lustrous boulangerite. 

The whole is on a matrix consisting of massive quartz, galena and rhodochrosite.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

Boulangerite

Formula: 
Pb5Sb4S11
Strunz: 
2.HC.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
Lead grey
Streak: 
Brownish
Type Locality: 
Molières, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

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