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Gold With Chalcopyrite & Rhodochrosite & Quartz

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Gold With Chalcopyrite & Rhodochrosite & Quartz

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Mangani Mine, Sumatera Barat Province, Sumatra Island, Indonesia
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 8.5 × 4.2 cm
Weight: 
105.00gr
Description

Historic gold/silver ore sample consisting of quartz, chalcopyrite and fibrous rhodochrosite or manganoan calcite (pic 9) in matrix rock. Maybe there is some free gold present (center of pic 1), but it is difficult to be distinguished from the golden chalcopyrite on this specimen.

From old Dr. Krantz stock, comes with pencil writing on the backside of a printed A. Krantz label - such "recycling" labels were occasionally used by Krantz.
The Mangani mine, an abandoned gold mine, operated in the years 1912-32 and again in WW II from 1940-42.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

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

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Rhodochrosite

Formula: 
MnCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Cavnic Mine (Kapnikbánya), Cavnic (Kapnic; Kapnik), Maramureș Co., Romania

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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