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Krut'aite With Aragonite & Chalcomenite

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Krut'aite With Aragonite & Chalcomenite

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Description
Locality: 
El Dragón Mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.3 × 1.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Description

Large krutaite crystals (for the species) up to 0.6 cm with blue chalcomenite and greenish clinochalcomenite (not pictured). Also not pictured: tiny intense green balls - maybe just malachite or another rare selenian mineral.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Krut'aite

Formula: 
CuSe2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Petrovice, Nové Město na Moravě, Vysočina Region, Moravia (Mähren; Maehren), Czech Republic

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Chalcomenite

Formula: 
CuSeO3·2H2O
Strunz: 
4.JH.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Cerro de Cacheuta, Sierra de Cacheuta, Mendoza, Argentina

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