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Djerfisherite

Year of discovery: 1966 (Kota-Kota meteorite, Malawi, and St. Mark's meteorite, South Africa), 1999 (Japan)

Locality list: A locality of djerfisherite

• K₆Fe₂₅S₂₆Cl
• K₆(Fe,Cu,Ni,Na)₂₅S₂₆Cl
• [K⁺₆][Fe²⁺₂₅][Cl|S₂₆]^53-

• Class: Djerfisherite group
• Class: Chloride - Sulfide
• Radioactive: Very weak

• K => Tl: Thalfenisite

• Color: Greenish yellow, Brown
• Luster: Sub-metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Granular

• Hardness: 3.5

• System: Cubic
• Group: m3m, Pm3m
• Lattice: a=10.5

Etymology: Prof. Daniel Jerome Fisher (1896-1988), American mineralogist