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Greenockite

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Description
Locality: 
Katerina Mine, Radvanice, Trutnov, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.8 × 1 cm
Description

A very rich coverage of orange acicular crystals of greenockite on matrix, very typical for the burning coaldumps of the Katerina Mine in Radvanice.
The burning coaldumps were cultivated between 1998 and 2003 and are nowaday's totally gone. Once the dumps were a premier locality for new and rare mineral species in the Czech Republic.

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
Cartils Minerals

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