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Native Bismuth & Bismuthinite

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Native Bismuth & Bismuthinite

Ex J & S Mommers Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Charlie Creek Prospect, Nome Borough, Alaska, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

A vee twinned native bismuth crystals with a small black bismuthinite crystal on the back of the specimen.

This is an old specimen originally from the Josephine Scripps Thumbnail Collection and comes with one of her typed labels. Josephine Scripps passed away in 1992, a biography on her mineralogical contribution can be see on the mineralogical record site

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bismuth

Formula: 
Bi
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Bismuthinite

Formula: 
Bi2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
Lead-gray
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