MnS
Alabandite is a rare manganese sulphide that occurs as brown to black masses, described as plumose, stalactitic or arborescent masses, and possibly in some cases as pseudomorphs after a hexagonal mineral, possibly rambergite. Apparently freshly broken alabandite from Broken Hill is dark olive-green in colour.
Selected Australian Occurrences:
- Rare at Broken Hill, New South Wales, but has been found in large masses.
- Found as small areas in a number of meteorites.
