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Greenockite

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

Yellow crust of the very rare mineral for the locality, greenockite from Lengenbach, on the typical white contrasting matrix.

Following the Faszination Lengenbach book, (p.188), only 32 catalogued specimens of grenockite from Lengenbach exist !

 

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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