Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Capgaronnite

Views:
Watches:
CR1027519

Capgaronnite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Las Cocotas Mine, Tíjola, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.2 × 1.4 cm
Description

Black Capgaronnite microcrystals in small vugs of the matrix. Beautiful and rich specimen of this extremely rare mineral only known from two  locations in Spain.

With green conichalcite.

SEM-EDS analysed

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Capgaronnite

Formula: 
HgAgS(Cl,Br,I)
Strunz: 
2.FC.20a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Cap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...