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Cupromakovickyite Makovickyite & Hodrušite

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Cupromakovickyite Makovickyite & Hodrušite

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Description
Locality: 
Băiţa, Nucet, Bihor County, Romania
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.4 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample in a fully analyzed polished pribe mount containing cupromakovickyite, makovickyite, aikinite, hodrushite, emplectite, tetradymite and others. Rare and type locale for cupromackovickyite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cupromakovickyite

Formula: 
Cu8Pb4Ag2Bi18S36
Strunz: 
2.JA.05d
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Western ore field, Scheelite deposit, Felben valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria

Makovickyite

Formula: 
Cu1.12Ag0.81Pb0.27Bi5.35S9
Strunz: 
2.JA.05d
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Grey
Streak: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Băiţa Mining District (Baita Bihor; Rézbánya), Nucet, Bihor Co., Romania

Hodrušite

Formula: 
Cu8Bi12S22
Strunz: 
2.JA.10c
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Hodruša-Hámre (Hodritsch), Žarnovica Co., Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia

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