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Lautite

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Description
Locality: 
Mundo Nuevo Mine, Huamachuco, Libertad Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

Rosette-like aggregates up to 2 mm of grey metallic tabular lautite crystals on the faces of sharp tennantite crystals ( up to 2.5 cm).

From a single find in November  2015.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Lautite

Formula: 
CuAsS
Strunz: 
2.CB.40
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Rudolph Shaft (Shaft 45), Lauta, Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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