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Mátraite

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Mátraite

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Description
Locality: 
Mátraszele, Nógrád County, Hungary
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Description

Brown crystal of sphalerite (labeled as matraite in the plastic box) from Hungary.

Matraite is a densely twinned columnar variety of sphalerite.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mátraite

Variety Of: 

Sphalerite

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

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