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Gold Coloradoite & Hessite In Quartz

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Gold Coloradoite & Hessite In Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Lakeview Mine, Comet Vale, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm
Description

A piece of massive quartz is laced through in crystallinr gold and coloradoite and minor hessite from the Lakeview Mine also known as the Lakeview and Star Mine at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Coloradoite

Formula: 
HgTe
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
2.5 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Keystone Mine, Magnolia District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Earthstones Australia

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