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Hutchinsonite & Sartorite

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Hutchinsonite & Sartorite

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1.3 cm
Description

Deep red crystals of hutchinsonite (a rare thallium mineral) for the type and most classic locality for the mineral, associated to an outstanding metallic sartorite crystal, realgar, pyrite and dravite. From a 1990 find.

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

Sartorite

Formula: 
PbAs2S4
Strunz: 
2.HC.05a
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland
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