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Alabandite

Locality: Zinc Corporation Mine (ZC Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

4.3 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm. An incredibly beautiful and aesthetic specimen of interconnected plumose sprays of alabandite from the Broken Hill deposit of Australia. Alabandite is a rare manganese sulfide from this locale, and was not discovered until 1965 and described until 1971. This elegant, wing-like specimen is from Level 17 of the NBHC Mine.

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