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Tellurobismuthite

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Tellurobismuthite

Ex University of Amsterdam
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9 × 6 × 4 cm
Description

A very rich coverage of shiny, silvery, platy cleavaged masses of tellurobismuthite, an uncommon bismuth-telluride, in matrix.

Collected in 1946 by Dutch geologists. Ex Geological Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Collected: 
1946
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tellurobismuthite

Formula: 
Bi2Te3
Strunz: 
2.DC.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Type Locality: 
Boly Field Mine (Field's Mine; Field's vein), Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia, USA...
Provenance
Cartils Minerals

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