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Tetrahedrite Sphalerite With Dolomite

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Tetrahedrite Sphalerite With Dolomite

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Locality: 
La Sanguinede mine, Les Malines, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Gard, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.1 × 1.9 cm
Weight: 
31.00gr
Description

Nice specimen with high metalic lustrous tetrahedrite crystals together with special striated sphalerite. This special habitus let though our collector generation for us, that is wurtzite. Today we know better.

In the paragenese are additional quartz, dolomite and galena. The first both minerals show small crystals. Galena only an eroded small group with white coating.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tetrahedrite

Formula: 
Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13
Strunz: 
2.GB.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Sphalerite

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

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White

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