Umangite, Clausthalite, & Friends - image 1

Umangite, Clausthalite, & Friends

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There is a lot more than clausthalite in here! I am told that if you have purple (and you do, visible, here!), you have umangite; and its a good bet there is klockmannite as well, and potentially all kinds of other good things. This specimen also contains Copper selenides because of the green secondaries. The non-metallic blue on there is likely chalcomenite, in fact. These specimens were presented to the academy by Casimiro Domeyko, who did much work on the rare minerals of Chile and Argentina. This specimen is more colorful than the specimen below. Note they do not fit together, but seem to have come from the same vein as they are similar enough. Note these are for sale "as is" with the ID as "Clausthalite and friends"...I have not analyzed them.