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Calaverite

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Description
Locality: 
Cresson Mine, Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

A very beautiful calaverite crystal with end faces and typical striation. On the calaverite are black-metallic microcrystalline growths (red square in the third picture), which could be identified as petzite after analysis by Joy Desor.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calaverite

Formula: 
AuTe2
Strunz: 
2.EA.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill District (Melones District), Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

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