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Emplectite & Bismuthinite

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Emplectite & Bismuthinite

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Description
Locality: 
Käfersteige Mine, Würm, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 2 cm
Description

Bundles of sturdy metallic emplectite crystals and crisscrossing clusters of thinner and long fine filiform crystals of bismuthinite in the vugs of the matrix. Cute specimen.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Emplectite

Formula: 
CuBiS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic crystlas
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tannenbaum Mine, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Bismuthinite

Formula: 
Bi2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
Lead-gray

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