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Domeykite

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Domeykite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Mohawk Mine, Mohawk, Keweenaw County, Michigan, United States of America
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3 × 1 cm
Description

Domeykite (a copper arsenide) crystal aggregate from Mohawk mine, Michigan. Domeykite is almost always found massive, but this specimen has a crystal although it is not very well formed (third and fourth photos).
Special interest of this specimen is that it has an old label from E.NOSKE, Hamburg, where it tells the sample comes from Houghton mine. Ex-Christian Rewitzer specimen with label included.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Domeykite

Formula: 
Cu3As
Strunz: 
2.AA.10b
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Los Algodones Mine, Los Algodones district, El Arrayan, La Serena, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile

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