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Tenorite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Very rare Tenorite from the type locality- Mt. Vesuvius, Napoli, Campania, Italy. A good representative specimen with a lot of small steel-grey crystals of the rare cuprum oxide.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tenorite

Formula: 
CuO
Strunz: 
4.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Peter Crozier Minerals