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Covellite

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Description
Locality: 
Torgal Mine, São Luís, Odemira, Beja District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm
Description

specimen with some beautiful bluish matallic exagonal lamellae of covellite on matrix.

ex personal collection of Pedro Alvis

c. 5634

Mineral Data
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Covellite

Formula: 
CuS
Strunz: 
2.CA.05a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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