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Uchucchacuaite

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Uchucchacuaite

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Description
Locality: 
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm
Description

Very good a rich striated uchucchacuaite with red proustite and possibly greenish-yellow keutschite (left crystal group on picture 3). Other associated minerals are luzonite, pyrite and pyrargyrite. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Uchucchacuaite

Formula: 
AgMnPb3Sb5S12
Strunz: 
2.JB.40a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Uchucchacuaite