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Scrutinyite & Murdochite

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Scrutinyite & Murdochite

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Description
Locality: 
Sunshine #1 Adit, Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.6 × 1.2 cm
Description

Outstanding black cubic crystals of the bromine mineral murdochite associated to brown patches of the mineral scrutinyite (photo 3) from the famous Blanchard claims in New Mexico.

Bromine minerals are extremely rare in Nature. From 6017 species known to date only 19 are Br minerals !. This is one of them !.(source Mindat)

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Scrutinyite

Formula: 
alpha-PbO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.20
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
Sunshine no. 1 Adit, Blanchard Mine (Portalas-Blanchard Mine), Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA

Murdochite

Formula: 
PbCu6O8-x(Cl,Br)2x where x<=0.5
Strunz: 
3.DB.45
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Colour: 
Black
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine (Mammoth-St Anthony Mine; Mammoth Mine; St. Anthony Mine), St. Anthony deposit, Tiger, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

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