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Tetrahedrite & Bournonite

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Tetrahedrite & Bournonite

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Description
Locality: 
Georg Mine, Willroth, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 0.8 × 4.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Oldtimer plate featuring some big lustruous crystal of Bournonite with a silvery-grey metallic lustre, tabular in habit with bevel edges associated with a group of intergrown metallic grey crystals of Tetrahedrite on a light fawn coloured crystalline Siderite.

Classic and very well represented german stuff!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tetrahedrite

Formula: 
Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13
Strunz: 
2.GB.05
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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

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The item can be returned for whichever reason, provided its original conditions, and within 10 days from its delivery to the Buyer. In the case of returning, the Buyer will be entitled to the refund of the item price; shipping costs will remain at the Buyer's charge in any case.