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Schalenblende

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Schalenblende

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Description
Locality: 
Schmalgraf Mine, Kelmis, Liège Province, Belgium
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.6 × 0.6 cm
Description

A block of sphalerite (variety schalenblende) with cubic grey crystals of galena included in yellow-brown bands of sphalerite.

Collected by Albert Vercammen in 1971.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Schalenblende

Mixture Of: 

Sphalerite

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

Wurtzite

Formula: 
(Zn,Fe)S
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5

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