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Perloffite & Cuprite

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Perloffite & Cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.2 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a fantastic and rich specimen of perloffite with cuprite and native copper from the best locality for the species. A really rich specimen and much better than my photos indicate.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Perloffite

Formula: 
Ba(Mn2+,Fe2+)2Fe3+2(PO4)3(OH)3
Strunz: 
8.BH.20
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Big Chief Mine (Johnson pegmatite), Glendale, Keystone District, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA

Cuprite

Formula: 
Cu2O
Strunz: 
4.AA.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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