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Imhofite

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Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Bronze colored crystal aggregate of the extremely rare thallium mineral imhofite associated to orpiment.
The number of confirmed imhofite specimens until 2002 was only 120, and later grew to only 172 ! (from the book Faszination Lengenbach, 2008). Type locality and only two localities known worldwide.

Lengenbach Official Code Number: L-28324
Find of 1997.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Imhofite

Formula: 
Tl5.8As15.4S26
Strunz: 
2.HD.30
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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