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Gold & Electrum

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Gold & Electrum

Ex U. Eger, Bochum, Germany
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 2.6 × 1.3 cm
Weight: 
8.30gr
Description

A quite rich specimen hosting lots of thin sheets of silvery gold var electrum on a matrix of the typical sericite schist and minor quartz. The color of the gold varies from silvery (e.g. pic 4) to golden (gold poor in silver, see pics 6 & 7), partly also "rusty" gold (pics 1 & 3).

Rare material from classic Boliden Mine, Boliden, Skellefteå, Sweden.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Electrum

Variety Of: 

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Formula: 
(Au, Ag)
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Hardness: 
0.0

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