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Rickardite

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Description
Locality: 
Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 2.7 × 1.6 cm
Description

Metallic purple grains of rickardite in quartz

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rickardite

Formula: 
Cu7Te5
Strunz: 
2.BA.30
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal Compact Purple masses
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Good Hope Mine (Mammoth Good Hope Mine; Mammoth-Good Hope Mine; Mammoth Chimney Mine), Vulcan, Vulcan District (Cebolla District; Domingo District), Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA