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Stilleite

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Description
Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine, Shinkolobwe, Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

A lot of black single crystal aggregates of the extremely rare selenium mineral stilleite from the famous deposit of Shinkolobwe, that it is the type locality.

Stilleite is the selenium analog of sphalerite

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stilleite

Formula: 
ZnSe
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
5.0
Colour: 
Gray
Type Locality: 
Shinkolobwe Mine (Kasolo Mine), Shinkolobwe, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

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