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Gold With Hematite

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Gold With Hematite

Ex Lehnen collection, Möchgengladbach, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Batopilas, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Weight: 
6.00gr
Description

This specimen features a group of gold crystals and two further single crystals (pics 8-9), on-grown on rhyolite breccia rock and accompanied by a lawn of tine hematite crystals.

The gold crystals show a cubic octahedron habit with some hopper growth. They are incredibly well-defined and high lustrous.
Although small, they show a really outstanding quality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

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