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Eugenite & Luanheite

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Eugenite & Luanheite

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Description
Locality: 
Los Bordos Mine, Elisa de Bordos, Tierra Amarilla, Atacama Region, Chile
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Metallic sheet of white-yellow eugenite on gray luanheite on matrix. The mine was mined more than 150 years, between 1860 and 1909.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eugenite

Formula: 
Ag11Hg2
Strunz: 
1.AD.15c
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Sieroszowice Mine, Polkowice District, Legnica, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

Luanheite

Formula: 
Ag3Hg
Strunz: 
1.AD.15b
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
White
Type Locality: 
Luanheite occurrence, Luan River valley (Luanhe valley), Chengde Prefecture, Hebei Province, China

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