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Silicon

Simcoa Operations Pty Ltd

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Description
Locality: 
Western Australia, Australia
Class: 
Artefact
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 6.7 × 5.2 cm
Description

A sample of industrial Silicon from Simcoa Operations Pty Ltd near Bunbury, Western Australia. Silicon of 96–99% purity is made by reducing quartzite or sand with highly pure coke. The label indicates a quarry producing quartzite 200 km north of Perth.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silicon

Formula: 
Si
Strunz: 
1.CB.15
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Nuevo Potosí deposit, Holguín Province, Cuba