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Smythite

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Smythite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Wanni Glacier, Monte Cervandone, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.4 × 0.8 cm
Description

Smythite is an uncommon iron-sulfide mineral, forms tiny hexagonal plates in colorless calcite, on bündnerschiefer matrix. Smythite is new from the Wanni Glacier.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smythite

Formula: 
(Fe,Ni)3+xS4 (x=0-0.3)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
dark gray
Type Locality: 
State Route 37 road cut (6), Bloomington, Monroe Co., Indiana, USA
Loranth Minerals

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