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Breithauptite & Ullmannite

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Breithauptite & Ullmannite

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Description
Locality: 
Masaloni Mine, San Vito, Sarrabus, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

Four small group of pink-reddish, metallic, breithauptite crystals on some small ulmannite crystals. The breithauptite crystals are rare but classic of this historic mine. A small but nice sample.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Breithauptite

Formula: 
NiSb
Strunz: 
2.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Type Locality: 
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Ullmannite

Formula: 
NiSbS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Storch und Schöneberg Mine, Gosenbach, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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