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Tripuhyite

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Tripuhyite

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Description
Locality: 
Alto do Sobrido Mine, Melres, Gondomar, Porto District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.9 × 1.7 cm
Description

Several tripuhyite 'urchins' on stibnite. Berthierite is also present.

 

Collected: 
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