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Gold & Hessite

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Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Browns Flat, Columbia District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm
Description

Very rich specimen of grey-black metallic Hessite with native Gold in quartz matrix. Collected in the late 1990s.

EDS analysed specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Gold & Hessite