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Chalcocite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
St Ives Consols, St Ives District, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.2 × 1.6 cm
Description

This is a super miniature: an intergrown cluster of sharp, thick, partly multifaced, textbook chalcocite from one of the historic localities for the species. The crystals are well developed as well and showing a fine metallic luster with bluish, green and reddish iridesence. A super oldtimed mini from a classic Cornish locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chalcocite

Formula: 
Cu2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
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