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Sphalerite

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Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Dundas Quarry, West Flamborough Township, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

This specimen consists of clusters of undamaged, translucent, coffee-coloured, complex sphalerite crystals on matrix. 

The specks of white on the surface of the specimen is not dust! Rather, the glints are a dusting of micro cyrstals of marcasite and the occasional calcite crystal. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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

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