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Chalcophanite

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Description
Locality: 
Herdade dos Pendões Mine, São Luís, Odemira, Beja District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2 × 1.9 cm
Description

Rich specimen with many very good exagonal black crystals of chalcophanite on matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcophanite

Formula: 
(Zn,Fe,Mn)Mn3O7·3H2O
Strunz: 
4.FL.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Passaic pit (Marshall Mine; Passaic Mine), Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

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