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Description: | This mineral is the most important ore of the element molybdenum. It forms bright shiny metallic deposits, and is very soft. It sometimes resembles small pieces of baking foil. Molybdenum is essential in tool-steel alloys. This specimen from the Pink Quarry at Shap, in Cumbria, is associated with iron pyrite and pink Shap Granite, which is a distinctive and widely used decorative building stone. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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