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Vaesite & Millerite

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Vaesite & Millerite

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Description
Locality: 
Rio delle Ossa, San Clemente, Monterenzio, Bologna Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.6 × 1 cm
Description

Nice crystal of this not spread sulphide of the "Pyrite Group" resting on a tuft of millerite crystals.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vaesite

Formula: 
NiS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Kasompi Mine (Menda Mine; Kasompi Hill), Swambo, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)

Millerite

Formula: 
NiS
Strunz: 
2.CC.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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