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Sphalerite (Spinel-Law twinned parallel crystals) from Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

DESCRIPTION:	No. 73965
Mineral:	Sphalerite (Spinel-Law twinned parallel crystals)
Locality:	Second Sovietskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Description:	Aesthetic cluster of lustrous parallel dark-brown metallic-looking sphalerite crystals, twinned following the Spinel Law of twinning. The sphalerite crystals have complex, convoluted shapes with parallel stepped crystallization patterns on the surfaces. Collected ca. 1990
Overall Size:	6.5x6x5 cm
Crystals:	10-30 mm
Archived:	For reference only

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