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Tiemannite

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Description
Locality: 
Lucky Boy Mine, Mount Baldy, Piute County, Utah, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3.8 × 3 cm
Description

Grey metallic tiemannite in well developed crystals and broken cleavages in calcite. This mineral is normally only visible in cut sections, rarely in crystals. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tiemannite

Formula: 
HgSe
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
St Lorenz Mine, Burgstatt veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany