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Robinsonite & Rouxelite

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Robinsonite & Rouxelite

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.4 × 2.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

Elongated crystals of rouxelite, bluish, metallic luster and with thick section. It is accompanied by small and thin acicular crystals of robinsonite, red copper color, in the midst of larger crystals of rouxelite. Finding of late 2014. Analyzed by Stefano Magnanelli and Christian Biagioni. Not many specimens were collected.

Collected: 
2014
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Robinsonite

Formula: 
Pb4Sb6S13
Strunz: 
2.HC.20
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
Lead-gray
Streak: 
Gray
Type Locality: 
Red Bird Mine, Lovelock, Antelope District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

Rouxelite

Formula: 
Cu2HgPb23Sb27S65.5
Strunz: 
2.JB.25j
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
black
Type Locality: 
Buca della Vena Mine, Ponte Stazzemese, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy