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Aikinite

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Description
Locality: 
Cucomungo Spring, Tule Canyon, Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 6.1 × 4.6 cm
Description

This is one of the larger specimens I have seen over the years. A downright enormous, slightly indistinct crystal of rare sulfosalt Aikinite, typically embedded in Quartz. The Aikinite has  metallic luster and a silver-gray colour. A really cool and especially impressive ore specimen. Comes with two relative old labels. One from Excalibur Minerals and one from Richard Shupe Minerals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aikinite

Formula: 
PbCuBiS3
Strunz: 
2.HB.05a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Berezovskoe Au Deposit (Berezovsk Mines), Berezovskii (Berezovskii Zavod), Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
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