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Molybdenite

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Molybdenite

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Description
Locality: 
Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 2.9 × 2.1 cm
Description

Molybdenite is a great rarity at Broken Hill and only a few isolated occurences have been recorded. This is one such, from the Block 14 Opencut in granules blue quartz with coronadite and spessartine are several small isolated metallic silver blades of molybdenite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Molybdenite

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