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Polhemusite

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Polhemusite

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Description
Locality: 
Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.6 × 0.4 cm
Description

Black shiny microcrystals of the very rare mineral Zn-Hg sulphide mineral polhemusite from the famous Getchell mine in Nevada, associated and intermixed with the typical realgar and minoritary orpiment from the locality.

Probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum, but the analysis is no longer available)

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Polhemusite

Formula: 
(Zn,Hg)S
Strunz: 
2.CB.05c
Hardness: 
4.5
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
B & B deposit (Dundee), Big Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA

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