Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Sphalerite Pyrrhotite & Calcite

Views:
Watches:
WND829364

Sphalerite Pyrrhotite & Calcite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
1st Sovetskii Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 6 × 4.2 cm
Description

This is a fascinating combination piece of tabular, tombac-golden Pyrrhotite, multifaced, white Calcite and rounded crystals of Sphalerite, showing hundreds of little flashing faces. A very good specimen from the great old times of Dalnegorsk,- history since decades.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sphalerite

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

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Wendel Minerals

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

Our Terms & Conditions can be found at:​ https://www.wendel-minerals.com/en/shop/agb.php