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Tennantite & Chalcopyrite

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Tennantite & Chalcopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Cêrro das Ferrarias, Barrigão Mine, Almodôvar, Beja District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm
Description

specimen with a perfect gray metallic crystals of tennantite with associate yellow crystls of chalcipyrite.

c. 4134

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tennantite

Formula: 
Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]As4S13
Strunz: 
2.GB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Cornwall, England, UK

Chalcopyrite

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

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