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Calcite & Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 38, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.4 × 4 cm
Description

Numerous of sharp, shiny gold crystals of Chalcopyrite scattered over a beautiful cluster of tapering Calcite. The scalenohedral Calcite is showing a glistening multifaced surface, is sharp edged and almost undamaged. A very good and classic mini from the famous Shaft 38 in Schlema.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
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