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Belendorffite & Native Mercury

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Belendorffite & Native Mercury

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Description
Locality: 
Rudabánya, Rudabányai Mountains, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 0.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

Very rare copper-amalgam species associating with native mercury.

Belendorffite forms golden yellow masses in cuprite, in association with native copper and malachite.

Native mercury occurs as typical drops in the cracks of cuprite matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Belendorffite

Formula: 
Cu7Hg6
Strunz: 
1.AD.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal Pseudo-cubic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Mercury

Formula: 
Hg
Strunz: 
1.AD.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Tin white
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