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Trechmannite & Hutchinsonite

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Trechmannite & Hutchinsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.3 × 1 cm
Description

Tabular gemmy dark red crystals of hutchinsonite (a rare thallium mineral) associated to red trechmannite crystals and very minoritary orpiment for the most classic locality for the two first minerals.

Official Code Number: L-21764 from a 1986 find.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Trechmannite

Formula: 
AgAsS2
Strunz: 
2.GC.35
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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

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