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Fahlore from Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany. This piece is from the mineralogical museum in Bonn, Germany.

Fahlore, or Fahlerz, refers to an ore consisting of complex sulfosalts, mostly the series between tennantite (Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]As4S13) and tetrahedrite (Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13). It comes from the German word for pale: Fahl. This refers to the characteristic pale grey to dark black colour.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ 1895-, Lüschen, Hans, (1979). Die Namen der Steine : das Mineralreich im Spiegel der Sprache : mit einem Wörterbuch, enthaltend über 1300 Namen von Mineralien, Gesteinen, Edelsteinen, Fabel- und Zaubersteinen (2., neubearb. und erw. Aufl ed.). Thun: Ott. ISBN 3722562651. OCLC 6356236. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series: Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series mineral information and data". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2018-02-19.


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