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Molybdenite With Ferrimolybdite

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Molybdenite With Ferrimolybdite

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Description
Locality: 
Knaben Mines, Knaben, Kvinesdal, Agder, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.2 × 7.8 × 3 cm
Weight: 
167.00gr
Description

Lustrous grey metallic crystallized molybdenite with crusts of yellow microcrystalline ferrimolybdite in a granite matrix. Nice representative Norwegian specimen that is highly uncommon in collections. With a handwritten label of the German collector Manfred Fabig who collected it on June 18th/1971.

Ex Manfred Fabig.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Molybdenite

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

Ferrimolybdite

Formula: 
Fe2(MoO4)3·nH2O
Strunz: 
7.GB.30
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Alekseevskii Mine, Lake Iktul', Karysh River Basin, Khakassia Republic (Khakassy Republic; Khakassiya Republic), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia...

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