A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Molybdenite |
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| Description | These flakes of molybdinite are all about 1-2 cm across. They have a metallic silver color, but are very flexible - somewhat like a mica. Molybdenite, MoS2 (molybdenum disulfide), is typically blue-gray silver in color, with a metallic luster and greasy feel. It occurs in crystals of the hexagonal system, but most commonly just as flakes of indistinct symmetry or as disemminated grains in a massive rock. It occurs in granites, syenites, gneisses, and crystalline limestones. Molybdenite is an important ore of molybdenum. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection. |
| Key words | molybdenite |
| Tech details | 971 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1067 |
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