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Hessite

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Description
Locality: 
McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Tuolomne County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

Grey metallic masses of hessite in chalcopyrite and quartz. Minor greenish areas which could be indicative for some Te mineralisation. 

References: 

Econ Geol (1987) 82:328-344; Mineralogical Record (1996) 27:115-120; Roberts, A. C., Ercit, T. S., & Cureton, F. F. (1994). Mcalpineite, Cu3TeO6. H20, from the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah I. Mineralogical Magazine, 58, 417-424.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
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