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Sphalerite

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MGR196420

Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Áliva Mine, Camaleño, Cantabria, Spain
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm
Description

Famous spanish classic at best quality. Outstanding barely flawless quality, great clarity, very translucent. Even without backlit it shows fantastic, intense ornage color. When backlit it is an explosion of color, it seems to glow inside. Quality is good enough to cut this sample. faces are not sharp, but very lustrous. Backside is cleaved, frontside consists of intergrown crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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