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Tintinaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Deer Park Mine, Rossland, British Columbia, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

Shiny metallic crystal of this very rare Pb-Cu-Sb-Bi sulphosalt known from a few places worldwide.

Tintinaite usually occur as included crystals in quartz matrix, but this specimen has a crystal out of the matrix.

Microprobed specimen in Dr.Hartel collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tintinaite

Formula: 
Pb22Cu4(Sb,Bi)30S69
Strunz: 
2.HB.10a
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Tintina Silver Mines, Tintina, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

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