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Chalcopyrite & Covellite

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Chalcopyrite & Covellite

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Description
Locality: 
Cattle Grid Deposit, Mount Gunson, Stuart Shelf, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 4.6 × 3.2 cm
Description

Brassy and irridescent chalcopyrite crystals over sphalerite  and covellite with some digenite and djuleite crystals, all bundled up over a bed of gemmy quartz crystals. This material was collected in the late 1970's when the under ground operations were underway at the Cattlegrid Mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Covellite

Formula: 
CuS
Strunz: 
2.CA.05a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Earthstones Australia

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