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Lapieite

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Description
Locality: 
Glacier Gulch, Smithers, Omenica District, British Columbia, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.8 × 0.7 cm
Description

Microscopic black grains of lapieite (a very rare Ni-Cu-Sb sulphide) forming inclusions in massive sulphides in mariposite-rich metamorphic rock from the type locality in Lapie river, Yukon, in a sample that has two sides polished because it was probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen, the Vandenbroucke Museum.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lapieite

Formula: 
NiCuSbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Colour: 
Gray
Type Locality: 
Lapie River, St Cyr Range, Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada

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