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Villamaninite

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Villamaninite

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Description
Locality: 
Providencia Mine, Villanueva de Pontedo, Cármenes, León, Castile & León, Spain
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 2 cm
Description

Very well defined octahedral crystals, one of them clearly dominant. The crystals are firmly based in an etched Calcite matrix. They are from a recent find in the area of the La Divina Providencia Mine, the type locality for the species, and they have bigger and better defined crystals than usual in the samples found before at this locality.

 

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Villamaninite

Formula: 
(Cu,Ni,Co,Fe)S2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Providencia Mine (La Divina Providencia Mine), Villanueva de Pontedo, Cármenes (Villamanín), León, Castile and Leon, Spain
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