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Calaverite Gold & Celestine

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Calaverite Gold & Celestine

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Description
Locality: 
Cresson Mine, Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm
Description

Tiny, metallic-gray claverite and some microscopic gold crystals/grains on and in matrix with acicular colorless celestine crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calaverite

Formula: 
AuTe2
Strunz: 
2.EA.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill District (Melones District), Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Celestine

Formula: 
SrSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Bell's Mill, Bellwood, Blair Co., Pennsylvania, USA...

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