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Delafossite On Native Copper

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Delafossite On Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Bou Nahas Mine, Oumjrane, Alnif, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 7 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very beautiful floater dendritic aggregate of small but very sharp octahedral crystals, also with the minor faces of the dodecahedron, a lot of them elongated and all have excellent color and luster.

With deep black lenticular delafossite crystals grown on copper crystals. (SEM-EDS analysed)

Very representative and aesthetic specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Delafossite

Formula: 
CuFeO2
Strunz: 
4.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0