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Tiemannite With Clausthalite & Chalcopyrite

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Tiemannite With Clausthalite & Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Charlotte Mine, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
97.00gr
Description

Fine and very typical classic specimen of tiemannite from the type locality:
A calcite vein is stained by fine-grained hematite (reddish), accompanied by tiemannite and clausthalite (dark grey metallic) in association with chalcopyrite (golden yellow), and quartz (white). The matrix rock is an altered greywacke (yellowish-grey).

Named after Johann Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Tiemann (10 June 1848, Rübeland, Kingdom of Hanover (now Germany) - 14 November 1899, Merano, Austria-Hungary (now Italy)), „Hütteneleve auf der Zorge“, and chemist in Berlin who had found the mineral in 1828. However, J.K.L. Zincken already mentioned "Quecksilberselen" in 1825. (cit. mindat).

Unfortunately no old label supplied.

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

Clausthalite

Formula: 
PbSe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
St Lorenz Mine, Burgstatt veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Chalcopyrite

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

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