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Greenockite & Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
San Benedetto Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 2 cm
Description

Fine specimen richly decorated with fine crystallized yellow greenockite on beautiful lustrous orange sphalerite crystals. Aside of the specimen, lots of rice-grain like smithonite crystals can be found. Interesting specimen from an old Italian locality. Find from 1978.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Greenockite

Formula: 
CdS
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Bishopton tunnel, Bishopton, Strathclyde (Renfrewshire), Scotland, UK

Sphalerite

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

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