Bornite with Calcite
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Bornite with Calcite
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- Availability
- Sold
- Size
- 6 x 6 x 3 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Formula
- Cu5FeS4 (RRUFF)
- Locality
- Mountain Consolidated mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, United States
- Tagged
- sulfide , ore specimen
Aesthetic specimen of Bornite matrix with flat-lying white Calcite crystals to 3cm. On the side you can see the clear definition of the ore vein as it penetrated the Butte quartz monzonite matrix.
Bornite
- Formula
- Cu5FeS4
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Crystal Habit
- Massive - Granular, Reniform, Granular
- Cleavage
- Imperfect, None, None
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- copper red, bronze brown, purple
- Streak
- grayish black
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
- Fracture
- Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 3
Data courtesy of Webmineral.
- Collection
- Phillips Collection
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