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Sphalerite & Galena

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Sphalerite & Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Deveti Septemvri Mine, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4 × 4 cm
Description

Very nice small cabinet piece of numerous gemmy yellow lustrous sphalerite, most of them twinned with some skeletal cubic galena crystals. The piece is pristine and there are contacts only on the periphery. The piece is at least ten years old.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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