Formula: (Fe,Zn)S
Sulphide, sphalerite group,
paramorph of buseckite,
keilite and troilite
Specific gravity:
Hardness: 4
Streak: Brownish black
Colour: Black
Environments
Localities
The type locality is the Indarch meteorite, Shusha, Aghjabadi District, Azerbaijan. Rudashevskyite, the Fe-dominant
analogue of sphalerite, is an accessory phase in the
enstatite chondrite.
It occurs as polycrystalline grains, 5–120 microns in size, associated with
clinoenstatite, iron variety
kamacite, troilite,
oldhamite, niningerite,
schreibersite and roedderite
(AM 93.902-909).
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