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Quartz Pyrite Chalcopyrite Sphalerite

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Quartz Pyrite Chalcopyrite Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

Very estheticgrown and fine paragenesis of 4 or maybe more different minerals. Small quartz grown over with tiny quartz and some bigger quartz on one side overgrown also with tiny quartz .

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Sphalerite

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