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Native Sulphur With Bitumen

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QRI672103

Native Sulphur With Bitumen

Former coll. Christian Mavris
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Cozzo Disi Mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Very elegant miniature of native sulphur with bitumen. The vug is lined with half a dozen bipyramidal sulphur crystals, which - when not covered with bitumen - show a partial transparency.
Quite cute and elegant specimen from this legendary mine, certainly dated back to a few decades ago.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sulphur

Formula: 
S8
Strunz: 
1.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5

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