A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Colusite, Cu3(As,Sn,V,Fe,Te)S4 |
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| Description | Colusite, Cu3(As,Sn,V,Fe,Te)S4, is the dark colored mineral; quartz is the white mineral. Colusite is typcially brownish to bronze-colored. It is a sulfide of copper and arsenic with vanadium, iron, and tellurium substituting for some of the arsenic. Here it is in visible crystals, but a massive form is more typical. It is found with other sulfides in hydrothermal copper ore veins. This specimen is 2.8 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Montana. Near Butte. Tramway Mine. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-11. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #128. |
| Key words | colusite, Montana |
| Tech details | 324 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1159 |
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