Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.

Zinkenite is a steel-gray metallic sulfosalt mineral composed of lead antimony sulfide Pb9Sb22S42. Zinkenite occurs as acicular needle-like crystals.It was first described in 1826 for an occurrence in the Harz Mountains Saxony-Anhalt Germany and named after its discoverer German mineralogist and mining geologist Johann Karl Ludwig Zinken (1790–1862).

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