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Hutchinsonite & Orpiment

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Hutchinsonite & Orpiment

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Description
Locality: 
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 3.5 × 2.6 cm
Description

Outstanding perfect sharp hutchinsonite crystal about 7mm (!!) in a matrix of crystallized aesthetic orpiment from the famous locality of Quiruvilca.

A single sharp perfect enargite crystal (photo 8) and minoritary pyrite is also present in the matrix.

 

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

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