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Chovanite

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Chovanite

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Description
Locality: 
Sant'Olga Tunnel, Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm
Description

A small very nice sample of rare chovanite, on rhombohedral crystals of white dolomite, together there are few crystals of rouxelite. Not many sample are finded of this rare sulfosalt from this mine but they are the best ever found for the specie. Analysed.  

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chovanite

Formula: 
Pb15-2xSb14+2xS36Ox (x ~ 0.2)
Strunz: 
2.JB.35e
Hardness: 
3.0 - 0.0
Colour: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Dúbrava, Liptovský Mikuláš Co., Žilina Region, Slovakia

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