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Tetra-auricupride

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Tetra-auricupride

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Description
Locality: 
Karabash Deposit, Soimon Valley, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

A single golden spot of the extremely rare gold mineral tetra-auricupride from Karabash , Russia.

Tetra-auricupride is a Au-Cu alloy very sought after for collectors of Group I minerals , and it is very rarely seen in the mineral market.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tetra-auricupride

Formula: 
AuCu
Strunz: 
1.AA.10b
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Sardala, Manasi (Manas; Marneshi), Manasi Co. (Manas Co.), Changji Autonomous Prefecture (Sanji Autonomous Prefecture), Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China

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