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Calaverite

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Calaverite

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Locality: 
Last Dollar Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.1 × 1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some very nice crystals of calaverite on quartz matrix with minor fluorite. The crystals are coated in some part by an unknown scaly, metallic mineral that would be interesting to analyze.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calaverite

Formula: 
AuTe2
Strunz: 
2.EA.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill District (Melones District), Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

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