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PhotosThese look like bornite crystals, not chalcocite.
25th Mar 2024 19:24 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
The dark crystals appear to show combined cube and octahedral forms and thus should not be chalcocite (monoclinic), but apparently bornite (not reported) or chalcocite pseudomorphs after cuprite?
Or perhaps more likely, they are from Kanbove Territory, where several similar specimens of bornite are posted:
27th Mar 2024 12:41 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
28th Mar 2024 20:32 UTCJean-Francois Carpentier Expert
29th Mar 2024 08:09 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager
30th Mar 2024 02:37 UTCHerwig Pelckmans
And thank you, Jean-François, for letting us know.
30th Mar 2024 12:23 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
Thanks to all for updating. Great to have an analysis.
Not so impressive, actually. A friend (Eric) has a similar specimen we happened to look at while working on all the U minerals from DRC I've been posting. He had it labeled as chalcocite, too. He's not great with crystal forms and when I noticed the forms were wrong, we started looking at the relevant mindat pages and found the photo up top matched it but was also apparently mislabeled. So I photographed and posted Eric's (inserted here).
I guess I have seen so many chalcocites and bornites from the Bristol, Connecticut copper mine that I have gotten good at telling them apart, even when massive. We're only as good as the rocks and minerals we've seen, maybe? :-)
30th Mar 2024 14:35 UTCDana Slaughter 🌟 Expert
30th Mar 2024 15:54 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Expert
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