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Rebulite & Christite

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Rebulite & Christite

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Description
Locality: 
Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Shimen County, Changde, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.9 × 0.7 cm
Description

Black crystals of the extremely rare thallium mineral rebulite in a matrix of orpiment and realgar from a new find in Shimen, China, a locality that was only previously known for orpiment and realgar crystals.

Minor dark red christite is also present on the specimen.

Rebulite has only ben found in two localities worldwide.

For more info see the recent excellent article in Mineral Up: 

Roth, P., Raber, T., Favreau, G. and Meisser, N. (2017): Thallium Sulfosalts from the Shimen As-Deposit, Hunan, China. Mineral Up 4(6): 8-22.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Christite

Formula: 
TlHgAsS3
Strunz: 
2.HD.15
Hardness: 
1.0 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Carlin Gold mine, Elko, Lynn District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

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