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Lillianite & Challacolloite

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Lillianite & Challacolloite

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Description
Locality: 
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Messina Province, Sicily, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Outstanding, so I can define this beautiful miniature, full for its half of glassy, yellow-gold crystals, of challacolloite, probably from La Fossa Crater come the best crystals known for this species, the other half of the sample is completely covered with a weft of prismatic crystals, gray-steel of lillianite. Fantastic!

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lillianite

Formula: 
Pb3-2xAgxBi2+xS6
Strunz: 
2.JB.40a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Lillian Mines, Printer Boy Hill, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA

Challacolloite

Formula: 
KPb2Cl5
Strunz: 
3.AA.55
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Lolon Mine (Challacollo Mine), Challacollo, El Tamarugal Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile

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