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Cubanite Chalcopyrite & Pyrrhotite

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Cubanite Chalcopyrite & Pyrrhotite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

A rich and attractive example with lustrous golden Chalcopyrites, tabular Pyrrhotites and a few prismatic Cubanites on Dolomite matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cubanite

Formula: 
CuFe2S3
Strunz: 
2.CB.55a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Barracanao (Baracoa), Moa-Baracoa District, Mayarí-Baracoa Belt, Holguín Province, Cuba

Chalcopyrite

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

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0