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Delafossite

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Delafossite

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Description
Locality: 
Briggs Mine, Bisbee, Warren District, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 3.6 × 3.1 cm
Description

Black delafossite crystals with red cuprite crystals

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...