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Orpiment & Hutchinsonite

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Orpiment & Hutchinsonite

David Burgess Collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.4 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with rich small clusters of perfect orpiment crystals hiding in vugs with prisms of hutchinsonite. As with most samples from this locality the exposed orpiment crystals have rubs due to their softness, but beautiful clusters still lie in the proctected areas of the sample. David Burgess collection. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Orpiment

Formula: 
As2S3
Strunz: 
2.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0

Hutchinsonite

Formula: 
TlPbAs5S9
Strunz: 
2.HD.45
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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