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Tripuhyite Cervantite & Stibnite

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Tripuhyite Cervantite & Stibnite

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Description
Locality: 
Alto do Sobrido Mine, Melres, Gondomar, Porto District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.8 × 2.8 cm
Description

Orange tripuhyite crystals growing on stibnite crystals, some of the altered to cervantite. Sulphur is also present as diminute rounded crystals.

 

 

Collected: 
2001
Boxed with Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tripuhyite

Formula: 
Fe3+Sb5+O4
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Tripuí (Tripuhy), Main district, Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cervantite

Formula: 
Sb3+Sb5+O4
Strunz: 
4.DE.30
Hardness: 
4.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Cervantes, Sierra de Ancares, Lugo, Galicia, Spain

Stibnite

Formula: 
Sb2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Lead grey