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Duranusite

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Description
Locality: 
Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 2 × 1.7 cm
Description

Grey crystals and crystal aggregates of the very rare mineral duranusite from the type locality in Duranus, associated to realgar.

Duranusite is a arsenic sulphide of rare composition As4S.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Duranusite

Formula: 
As4S
Strunz: 
2.FA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
L'Eguisse Mine, Duranus, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...

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