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Digenite

Dan Behnke collection
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Locality: 
Mount Gunson Copper Mines, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.3 × 1.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with some very nice crystals of digenite richly distributed on matrix with chalcopyrite and chalcocite. Comes with Dan's original slide and index card. 

This sample is from the collection of Dan Behnke, long-time friend, micromounter and prodigious photographer. I am pleased to be able to offer selections from his large collection, many of which are illustrated specimens in Rocks & Minerals, The Mineralogiocal Record, Photo Atlas of Minerals and many other publications. All samples from his meticulously catalogued collection will come with his original index card with all notes, photography annotations and other pertinent information, as well as any slides Dan may have taken of the sample with publication notes and date the photo was made.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Digenite

Formula: 
Cu9S5
Strunz: 
2.BA.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Copper slate deposits, Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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