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Hutchinsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

Some gemmy crystals (see photo 1) and others not gemmy (photo 4) of the rare thallium sulphosalt hutchinsonite from the famous Lengenbach quarry in Switzerland. 

Nice under the microscope and difficult to photograph !

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hutchinsonite

Formula: 
TlPbAs5S9
Strunz: 
2.HD.45
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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