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Siegenite

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Siegenite

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Locality: 
Hendrik & Emma Mine, Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1.2 cm
Description

This specimen comes from the Netherlands a country very poor in minerals. With just three active limestone quarries and some old mine dumps there are only a two or three mineral collecting sites and really good specimens from the Netherlands are scarce.
The best locality in the Netherlands are the combined dumps of the former Emma coalmine and Hendrik coalmine in Brunssum.
The two rarest species from the Netherlands are siegenite and millerite and this specimen with some sub-millimetric bright lustrous siegenite crystals associated with chalcopyrite is very typical for the locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Siegenite

Formula: 
CoNi2S4
Strunz: 
2.DA.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Stahlberg Mine (Schwabengrube), Müsen, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Cartils Minerals

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