A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Germanite with tennantite |
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| Description | This sample is mostly tarnished germanite (Cu26Fe4Ge4S32), a rare reddish-gray (when fresh) mineral. It is a primary ore of germanium but, when tarnished, germanite can be overlooked. This specimen also contains tennantite, a copper-iron-arsenic-sulfide. The two, however, are hard to distinguish in this photo. The sample is 8 cm in longest dimension. |
| Location | Namibia. Near Tsumeb. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-16. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #252. |
| Key words | germanite, tennantite, Namibia, Africa |
| Tech details | 647 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1194 |
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