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Galkhaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Weight: 
6.00gr
Description

Bright cherry red cubic crystals of this rare complex sulfosalt from the Getchell underground mine. Collected in 1996. No oxidation on the mineral and comes shipped in a labelled perspec box.  Colour is attributed to high trace mercury in the lattice.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Galkhaite

Formula: 
(Cs,Tl)(Hg,Cu,Zn)6(As,Sb)4S12
Strunz: 
2.GB.20
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Khaidarkan Sb-Hg deposit (Chaidarkan), Fergana Valley, Alai Range (Alay Range), Osh Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

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