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Hutchinsonite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 4.4 × 2.1 cm
Description

Superb specimen with numerous deep red-black, prismatic crystals of rare Thallium bearing sulfalt mineral hutchinsonite. Associating minerals are orange orpiment in radiating clusters, black pentagon-dodecahedral pyrite and white quartz. Really an amazing specimen with many fine details.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hutchinsonite

Formula: 
TlPbAs5S9
Strunz: 
2.HD.45
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland
Loranth Minerals

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