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Hocartite

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Hocartite

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Description
Locality: 
Pirquitas, Rinconada Department, Jujuy, Argentina
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Nice aggregates of blackish grey blocky hocartite crystals ,and bronze coloured toyohaite aggregates (with pseudocubic form) of microcrystals on franckeite carpets with some cylindrite tubes.

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Hocartite

Formula: 
Ag2(Fe2+,Zn)SnS4
Strunz: 
2.CB.15a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Chocaya mine, Chocaya-Animas (Animas-Chocaya), Atocha-Quechisla District, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia

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