Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Hutchinsonite & Orpiment

Views:
Watches:
SHS148436

Hutchinsonite & Orpiment

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.6 × 1 cm
Description

Hutchinsonite on orpiment

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hutchinsonite

Formula: 
TlPbAs5S9
Strunz: 
2.HD.45
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

Orpiment

Formula: 
As2S3
Strunz: 
2.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0