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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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.2 × 2.7 cm
Description

A very  good shaped, big, undamaged crystals of tiemannite from a classic locality. This mineral is mostly usually only visible in polished cut sections.

The EDS analysis shows a minor substitution of selenium by sulfur. 

Analysis attached. 

 

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