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Mückeite

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Mückeite

Type Locality
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Grüneau Mine, Schutzbach, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm
Description

Mückeite is a extreme rare Ni-Cu-Bi-Sb Sulfide mineral only known from its type locality. Even from here only very few specimen are known.

This small specimen hosts a rather large and very good Mückeite crystal of about 3.5 mm in matrix.

From my personal collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mückeite

Formula: 
NiCu(Bi,Sb)S3
Strunz: 
2.GA.25
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Grüneau Mine (Grüne Au Mine; Grünau Mine), Schutzbach, Betzdorf, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany