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Roquesite

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Roquesite

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Description
Locality: 
Kawazu Mine, Rendaiji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.5 × 2 cm
Description

The rare indium-copper sulfide appears in the form of brown-metallic, 1 mm crystal aggregates, in 2 cm large areas in Quartz

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Roquesite

Formula: 
CuInS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Charrier Mine, Laprugne, Le Mayet-de-Montagne, Allier, Auvergne, France