Mineralpedia Details for Emplectite
Emplectite
- Formula
- Cu1+BiS2
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Prismatic, Granular, Massive - Fibrous
- Cleavage
- Perfect, None, None
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- gray, grayish yellow, silver white, tin white
- Streak
- black
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Brittle
- Hardness
- 2
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Emplectite from Schmiedestollen, Wittichen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Grey, metallic, acicular crystals and groups in matrix.
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Emplectite from Tannenbaum mine, Breitenbrunn dist., Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
This specimen contains a 1cm vein through the center. On the fringes of the vein are small openings which contain needle-like crystals of silvery and shiny emplectite crystals to about 1-1.5mm.
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Emplectite from Krupka, Erzgebirge, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Randomly oriented black to grey needles of Emplectite to 2mm with purple Fluorite.
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