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Calaverite & Sylvanite

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Description
Locality: 
Cripple Creek District, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.8 × 2.7 cm
Weight: 
32.00gr
Description

A specimen with well defined crystals of rare gold-telluride calaverite.  There are several crystals and clusters.  Also, there are grey-metallic crystals lying flat which is the sylvanite.  Sylvanite is a mineral that has both gold and silver in its structure.  Orange/brown colored balls are quartz.  Rare material.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calaverite

Formula: 
AuTe2
Strunz: 
2.EA.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill District (Melones District), Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

Sylvanite

Formula: 
(Au,Ag)2Te4
Strunz: 
2.EA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Baia de Arieş (Offenbánya), Alba Co., Romania

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