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Miersite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altai Krai, Russian Federation
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.6 × 0.7 cm
Description

Rubtsovskoe Mine is one of the most famous russian localities in the last years. World class cuprite crystals and native copper specimens made this locale well known, but here it comes a really out of focus mineral from teh locality. This is a miersite speicmen and thid is a silver-chloride mineral of chlorargyrite group. It forms pale yellow crystals and masses in limonitic matrix with minor cuprite.

Mineral Data
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Miersite

Formula: 
(Ag,Cu)I
Strunz: 
3.AA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Loranth Minerals

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