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Greenockite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.6 × 0.5 cm
Description

Outstanding small specimen of sharp orange greenockite crystals from the famous locality Tsumeb, associated to smithsonite and galena.

Greenockite at Tsumeb is rare. It was labeled as "R: rare, several occurrences with a few specimens known"  in G.Gebhard Tsumeb II book (1999).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Greenockite

Formula: 
CdS
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Bishopton tunnel, Bishopton, Strathclyde (Renfrewshire), Scotland, UK

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