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Miersite

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Description
Locality: 
British Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

A great old time miersite specimen, displaying well formed crystals in a range of colours including yellow, pale green and colourless on a contrasting dark gossan matrix.

Species was named for Henry Miers, a Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Miersite

Formula: 
(Ag,Cu)I
Strunz: 
3.AA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia
Earthstones Australia

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