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Bournonite

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Bournonite

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Description
Locality: 
Mine #6, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Steel-gray, striated, bournonite crystals to 8 mm scattered abundantly over a drusy pyrite-sphalerite matrix. Beautiful specimen - mined in 2001

Mineral Data
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Bournonite

Formula: 
PbCuSbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.50
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Wheal Boys (Trewetha Mine; Old Trewetha Mine), Port Isaac, St Endellion, Wadebridge District, Cornwall, England, UK