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Danbaite

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Danbaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Mansfeld Basin, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Extremely rare single crystals of this natural Cu-Zn alloy from one of only two known localities worldwide, the find from this locality still not being published anywhere.

Analyzed specimen, see copy attached.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Danbaite

Formula: 
CuZn2
Strunz: 
1.AB.10b
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE deposit, Yangliuping Cu-Ni-PGE ore field, Danba Co., Garzê Autonomous Prefecture (Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture), Sichuan Province, China

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