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Hessite & Bornite

SEM-EDS & SC-XRD no 1057

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Description
Locality: 
Winston, Sierra County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.7 × 0.4 cm
Description

SEM-EDS & SC-XRD microdiffractio confirmed grey metallic hessite among bornite from Winston, Sierra Co, New Mexico, USA. Previously labelled as weissite. 

Specimen comes with full copy of the analytical report. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Bornite

Formula: 
Cu5FeS4
Strunz: 
2.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Hessite & Bornite
Analysis Report - only: Hessite & Bornite
Analysis Report - only: Hessite & Bornite
Analysis Report - only: Hessite & Bornite
Analysis Report - only: Hessite & Bornite