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Mcalpineite & Weissite

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Mcalpineite & Weissite

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Description
Locality: 
Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Genova, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.1 × 1 cm
Description

specimen recently found with some aggregate of apple green mcalpineite with some dark gray metallic aggregates of the rare weissite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mcalpineite

Formula: 
Cu3(Te6+O6)
Strunz: 
7.DE.55
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0
Colour: 
Green
Type Locality: 
McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville District, Mother Lode Belt, Tuolumne Co., California, USA

Weissite

Formula: 
Cu2-xTe
Strunz: 
2.BA.30
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Good Hope Mine (Mammoth Good Hope Mine; Mammoth-Good Hope Mine; Mammoth Chimney Mine), Vulcan, Vulcan District (Cebolla District; Domingo District), Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA

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