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Chalcopyrite

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Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Zwartberg Mine, Zwartberg, Genk, Limburg, Flanders, Belgium
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Lustrous chalcopyrite crystals up to 4 mm on a bed of dolomite crystals and associated with small dickite and quartz crystals. A very uncommon locality piece, collected on the dumps of the Zwartberg coalmine in the 1970's.
Two other pieces from this location are also listed in this auction.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Cartils Minerals

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