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Molybdenite

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Molybdenite

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Description
Locality: 
Screel Hill, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Silver masses of molybdenite showing crystals in quartz. The quartz shows some yellow fluoresence.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Molybdenite

Formula: 
MoS2
Strunz: 
2.EA.30
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Peter Crozier Minerals