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Sphalerite on Quartz

Brightly fluorescent sphalerite crystals on a matrix of pyrite and galena, with quartz crystals. Locality given as Chenzhou China but that's really just a big mineral market, so could be from anywhere in China. Very phosphorescent (2nd pic).

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