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Sphalerite

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Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Weight: 
145.00gr
Description

Hundreds of isolated single to large complex sphalerite crystals encrusting both sides of a thin rib of matrix.

Very bright and lustrous.

 

 

 

Trace: 
Quartz
Pasted Label
Condition
General: 
Excellent - locality specimen
Main Display: 
Excellent - some very minor contacts
Lustre: 
Glassy
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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

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