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Bornite

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Description
Locality: 
Kipushi Mine, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.6 × 7.2 × 4.7 cm
Weight: 
457.00gr
Description

Nice size specimen, of almost 0.5 Kg, with bright metallic polychrome bornite, minor chalcopyrite and black sphalerite. Some small areas are red bronze coloured, that are typical for renierite from Kipushi.

Ex René Virlet specimen, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bornite

Formula: 
Cu5FeS4
Strunz: 
2.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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