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Aikinite

EDS confirmed specimen no 20-04-04-ga20

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Description
Locality: 
Grüneau Mine, Schutzbach, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm
Description

EDS confirmed specimen no 20-04-04-ga20 hosting grey metallic aikinite in siderite matrix. Analysis attached. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aikinite

Formula: 
PbCuBiS3
Strunz: 
2.HB.05a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...