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Apuanite

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Apuanite

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Description
Locality: 
Buca Della Vena Mine, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

Lustrous black metallic crystals of apuanite on matrix from the Type Locality. A good example of this rare iron-antimony-oxide associated with some sulfides.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Apuanite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+4Sb3+4O12S
Strunz: 
4.JA.25
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Buca della Vena Mine, Ponte Stazzemese, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Cartils Minerals

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