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Covellite

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Description
Locality: 
Leonard Mine, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.3 × 0.7 cm
Description

A rather ideal thumbnail specimen of covellite featuring a textbook crystal standing upright, front and center.   This specimen has been in my personal collection for over a decade,

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Covellite

Formula: 
CuS
Strunz: 
2.CA.05a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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