Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Pyrrhotite & Cubanite

Views:
Watches:
CAM168048

Pyrrhotite & Cubanite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Morro Velho Mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 9 × 5.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.80cm
Description

An excellent and very aesthetic specimen from the Morro Velho Mine.
A matrix of colourless to light grey dolomite crystals has a very rich coverage of lustrous, bronze-coloured, sharp pyrrhotite crystals up to 1.8 cm and small lustrous golden to bronze-yellow coloured elongated tabular cubanite crystals.
From the famous find in the 1960's.
Great Piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Cubanite

Formula: 
CuFe2S3
Strunz: 
2.CB.55a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Mayarí-Baracoa Belt, Holguín Province, Cuba
Cartils Minerals

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps