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Colusite

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Description
Locality: 
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Black microcrystal aggregates of colusite from the famous Bisbee deposit in Arizona, associated to majoritary pyrite..

Colusite in Bisbee is very rarely found.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Colusite

Formula: 
Cu26V2(As,Sn,Sb)6S32
Strunz: 
2.CB.30
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
East Colusa Mine, Berkeley Pit, Butte, Butte District (Summit Valley District), Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA

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