Sphalerite

Locality: Great Wheal Busy (Chacewater Mine), Chacewater, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK

Larger object about 4mm long. Identified by U. Kolitsch at the University of Vienna as pseudohexagonal sphalerite formed by polysynthetic twinning, a highly unusual habit.
-- Personal collection G. Curtis. Collected Wheal Busy 20 July 2004.

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