Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Helvine Hematite Var Specularite On Quartz

Views:
Watches:
SLN221809

Helvine Hematite Var Specularite On Quartz

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Jinlong Hill, Longchuan County, Heyuan, Guangdong Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 9.7 × 9.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Nice specimen from China with a very interesting association of black helvine in an excellent tetrahedral crystal, heamatite var specularite in black lamellar crystals and pinkish quartz. The helvine crystal is 2 X 1.8 Cm. big

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Helvine

Formula: 
Mn2+4(Be3Si3O12)S
Strunz: 
9.FB.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Friedefürst Mine, Breitenbrunn, Breitenbrunn District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Specularite

Variety Of: 

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Colour: 
Silvery

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps