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Chabournéite & Wakabayashilite

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Chabournéite & Wakabayashilite

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Description
Locality: 
Jas Roux, La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Outstanding metallic crystals of the very rare thallium mineral chabourneite, from this classic locality for thallium minerals and associated to also rare yellow wakabayashilite

Chabourneite has only been found in 3 localities worldwide!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chabournéite

Formula: 
Tl21-xPb2x(Sb,As)91-xS147 (x = 0-17.5)
Strunz: 
2.HC.05e
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Jas Roux, La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar (La Chapelle-en-Valgaudémar), Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...

Wakabayashilite

Formula: 
[(As,Sb)6S9][As4S5]
Strunz: 
2.FA.40
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Nishinomaki Mine, Gunma Prefecture, Kanto region, Honshu Island, Japan

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