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Emplectite

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Emplectite

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Description
Locality: 
Tannenbaum Mine, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2.4 × 2.2 cm
Description

A very good example with tens of extremely bright, grey metallic, extricated prismatic crystals emplectite, embedded in a quartz matrix and freely exposed in some cavities.

Emplectite is a rare Cu-Bi sulphide and this piece is from Tannebaum stollen, the type locality.

Ex Robert Jakob specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Emplectite

Formula: 
CuBiS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic crystlas
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Tannenbaum Mine, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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