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Pyrrhotite With Galena

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Pyrrhotite With Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13.3 × 9.1 × 6.9 cm
Description

A fantastic large specimen with lustrous bronze-colored metallic pyrrhotite crystals with lustrous gray-metallic cubic galena crystals at the back showing skeletal growth.

Very nice specimen from the early days when Russian minerals were easier to obtain.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrrhotite

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

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey
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