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English: Wittichenite (Size: 2.4 x 1.8 x 0.6 cm)
Locality: Mount Gunson (Cattle Grid; Cattlegrid; ML 4247; ML 5599; A & MJ Musolino Pty Ltd; Brennans Claim; EML 6192; Main Open Cut; ML 3717; ML 3718; ML 3719; ML 3720; ML 3721; ML 5598), Mt Gunson, Stuart Shelf area, Andamooka Ranges - Lake Torrens area, South Australia, Australia
A significant specimen of a very rare copper bismuth sulfide: this is a sharp thumbnail crystal which was collected over 30 years ago from this now-defunct copper and bismuth mine. It has great form, and a very interesting luster with hints of iridescence. These are the finest known examples of the species by several orders of magnitudes. Reportedly, and an article in the Mineralogical Record will provide the full story some time next year, a mine geologist kept 30 crystals as samples found when the mine was working in the early 1980s. All others, including much other material of other species, went to the crushers and were smelted. Nowhere in the world have such large and sharp crystals of this magnitude been found before or since. This is a large thumbnail, complete-all-around, and it has a unique golden-satiny luster to it. Joe Budd photo.
Deutsch: Wittichenit (Größe: 2,4 x 1,8 x 0,6 cm)
Fundort: Mount Gunson, Stuart Shelf Gebiet, Andamooka Ranges - Lake Torrens Gebiet, South Australia, Australien
Date before October 2012
date QS:P,+2012-10-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2012-10-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-491887.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
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Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
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Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus Edit this at Wikidata
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