Vote for your favorite mineral in #MinCup26! - Sphalerite vs. Anorthite Both zinc ore Sphalerite and calcium plagioclase feldspar Anorthite have perfect cleavage that will split cleanly if you hit them with a hammer, but only one can claim a larger split of your votes!
Erroneously reported; reinvestigation showed the 2 specimens in the collection of the NHM Vienna to be (only partly metamict) aeschynite-(Y) (Kolitsch, U., to be published). Visually similar, other specimens (collection T. Schachinger) also were determined by SXRD and SEM-EDS to be partly metamict aeschynite-(Y).