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Cuprite & Miersite

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Cuprite & Miersite

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Description
Locality: 
Rubtsovskoe Deposit, Rudnyi Altai, Altai Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2.3 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.30cm
Description

A nice mirror lustrous steel blue cuprite octahedron.  It is one of very few specimens that also has the rare silver copper iodide miersite present as a bright yellow crust in the corners. Miersite is known from only a few
loactions worldwide, and almost always occurs as microcrystals. In very good condition, one edge is contacted. The cuprite has been exhausted.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprite

Formula: 
Cu2O
Strunz: 
4.AA.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110