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Aktashite

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Aktashite

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Description
Locality: 
Moctezuma Mine, Moctezuma, Moctezuma Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
13 × 0.8 × 0.6 cm
Description

Gray-black inclusions of the mercury bearing sulfide from the Moctezuma.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aktashite

Formula: 
Cu6Hg3As4S12
Strunz: 
2.GA.30
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 -
Type Locality: 
Aktashskoye, Altai Republic, Western Siberia, Russian Federation
Isostructural with: 
Gruzdevite
Nowackiite