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Alabandite (Photo)

Year of discovery: 1842 (Sacarîmb, Romania), 1904 (Japan)

Locality list: 130 localities of alabandite

• MnS
• α-[Mn²⁺][S]^2-

• Class: Galena group
• Class: Sulfide
• Soluble in: HCl (Rotten egg odor)
• Magnetism: Paramagnetic
• Odor: Rotten egg odor (by hitting or solving in HCl)

• Polymorph: Rambergite (β, Hexagonal)

• Mn => Cd: Hawleyite (α), Greenockite (β)
• Mn => Zn: Sphalerite (α), Wurtzite (β)
• Mn => Fe: Rudashevskyite, Troilite
• Mn => Hg: Metacinnabar (α), Cinnabar, Hypercinnabar
• Mn => Ni: Millerite (β)
• Mn => Cu: Covellite

• Color: Black
• Tarnish: Dull luster (in the air)
• Streak: Dark green
• Luster: Sub-Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Cubic, Octahedral
• Twin: {111}

• Cleavage: Perfect on {001} (3 planes)
• Hardness: 3.5
• Density: 4

• System: Cubic
• Group: 4/m(-3)2/m, Fm3m
• Lattice: a=5.2

Etymology: Alabanda district, Turkey