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Aikinite

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Description
Locality: 
Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Description

This is a questionable species from Julcani: in fact, sometimes it's labelled as aikinite, some others as hodrusite or krupkaite or friedrichite or benjaminite. This one was not analyzed, but it was acquired as Aikinite. It appears with some acycular meta.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aikinite

Formula: 
PbCuBiS3
Strunz: 
2.HB.05a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
Davide Zaccaria

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