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Chalcopyrite

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Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Bidjovagge, Kautokeino, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 9.4 × 4.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

About a dozen of nice developped chalcopyrite crystals ranging approx. 0.2 – 0.4 cm in size are set on quartz crystals. Additionally hundreds (thousands?) of micro-crystals of chalcopyrite crystals are scattered throughout the specimen. From a closed copper mine with some accessory gold in Northern Norway.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcopyrite

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

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