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Covellite

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Covellite

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Description
Locality: 
Murrays Reward Mine, Balfour, Circular Head Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.6 × 4 × 3.2 cm
Description

A large blocky crystalling mass of covellite with some chalcopyrite associated from Murray's reward Mine in Tasmania.

This deposit was mined underground pre WW I and again briefly as an open ut pit in the 1980's

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Covellite

Formula: 
CuS
Strunz: 
2.CA.05a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy
Earthstones Australia

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