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Pyrrhotite & Sphalerite Var Marmatite

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Pyrrhotite & Sphalerite Var Marmatite

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Description
Locality: 
Cavnic Mine, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 9.4 × 7.3 cm
Weight: 
443.00gr
Description

Nice specimen from Cavnic with an aesthetic associatio of pyrrhotite in a myriad of lamellar crystals and sphalerite var marmatite in crystals of excellent brightness

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

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Marmatite

Variety Of: 

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Formula: 
(Zn,Fe)S
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Black

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