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Zinkenite & Tetrahedrite

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Zinkenite & Tetrahedrite

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Description
Locality: 
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4 × 2.3 cm
Description

Beautiful black acicular zinkenite crystals scattereved over sharp tetrahedrite crystals to 8mm.

Minor sphalerite is present.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zinkenite

Formula: 
Pb9Sb22S42
Strunz: 
2.JB.35a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Graf Jost-Christian Mine, Wolfsberg, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Tetrahedrite

Formula: 
Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13
Strunz: 
2.GB.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
schani

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