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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: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 3.5 × 1 cm
Description

Thick metallic sheet of white-yellow eugenite on gray luanheite cover all mos the sample. The mine was mined more than 150 years, between 1860 and 1909. This is one of the good examples that I keep because in 1998, the entrance to the mine collapse. The sample is highlighted by the thickness of the sheets of this mineral.

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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