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Bournonite

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Bournonite

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Description
Locality: 
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
20 × 19 × 9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

An absolutely spectacular museum specimen of totally lustrous and well-striated bournonite crystals to 1.4 cm set in very sparkly chalcopyrite-sphalerite-galena matrix from Baia Sprie Mine. Truely a fantastic specimen - mined in 2000.

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