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Coloradoite Hessite Petzite Gold

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Coloradoite Hessite Petzite Gold

Ex Steve Zahony Collection

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Description
Locality: 
La Plata County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 5.8 × 3 cm
Weight: 
112.00gr
Description

A specimen with a variety of tellurides and some visible gold.  Most of the tellurides are micros and are scattered in veins in the quartz matrix.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Coloradoite

Formula: 
HgTe
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
2.5 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Keystone Mine, Magnolia District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Petzite

Formula: 
Ag3AuTe2
Strunz: 
2.BA.75
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Sacarîmb (Sãcãrâmb; Szekerembe; Nagyág), Deva, Hunedoara Co., Romania

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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