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Sphalerite With Pyrrhotite

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QRI784927

Sphalerite With Pyrrhotite

Former collection Christian Mavris
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Description
Locality: 
Tavagnasco Mine, Tavagnasco, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.3 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Weight: 
62.00gr
Description

Dark sphalerite crystals interlocked as a chain of 4 individuals. Sphalerite appears with a crude, rather rounded habitus, cropping out of etched carbonate, providing a strong color contrast. On the side, cropping out of the carbonate, some very thin pyrrhotite blades. Throughout the specimen, some minor quartz crystals, while on the back there is the relic of a centimetric galena crystal, deeply altered and hollow, most likely a witness of the change of the equilibrium conditions. 

A fortuitous find dated back to October 2019. Pretty hard to find. 

Collected: 
2019
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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