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Tenorite On Chalcocite

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Tenorite On Chalcocite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Gunson Copper Mines, Pernatty Lagoon, Stuart Shelf, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 1.8 × 1.6 cm
Description

A cluster of sharp chalcocite crystals that have been covered with black tennantite that was collected in a narrow cavity at the Cattlegrid Mine Mount Gunson in the late 1970's

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

Chalcocite

Formula: 
Cu2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
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