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Emplectite & Chalcopyrite

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Emplectite & Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

Within the typical drusy quartz matrix grow plenty of twinned and strongly ribbed dull metallic lustrous crystals of emplectite and golden lustrous chalcopyrite. On the back some needles are coated with not determined secondary minerals. A classic from the type locality and hard to get in this times. Beautiful under magnification.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Emplectite

Formula: 
CuBiS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic crystlas
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tannenbaum Mine, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110