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Bornite

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Also known as erubescite, peacock copper

minerale

Key facts

Mineral.name
Bornite
Mineral.category
Sulfide mineral
Mineral.image
Bornite-Quartz-135210.jpg
Mineral.imagesize
260px
Mineral.caption
Lightly iridescent bornite crystal on quartz needles, from Kazakhstan
Mineral.formula
Cu5FeS4
Mineral.IMAsymbol
Bn
Mineral.molweight
501.88 g/mol
Mineral.strunz
2.BA.10
Mineral.system
Orthorhombic
Mineral.class
Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
Mineral.symmetry
Pbca
Mineral.unit cell
a = 10.95 Å, b = 21.862 Å, c = 10.95 Å; Z = 16
Mineral.color
Copper red, bronze brown, purple
Mineral.habit
Granular, massive, disseminated – Crystals pseudocubic, dodecahedral, octahedral
Mineral.twinning
Penetration twins on [111]
Mineral.cleavage
Poor on [111]
Mineral.fracture
Uneven to subconchoidal

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Wikidata facts

Named after
Ignaz von Born
Image
Bornite-105006.jpg
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Commons category
Bornite
Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
2.BA.15
Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
2.BA.10
chemical formula
Cu₅FeS₄
type locality (geology)
Jáchymov
Mohs' hardness
3
density
5.10
IMA Mineral Symbol
Bn
Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
II/A.02
Sources (4)

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Article · Italiano

La bornite Cu5FeS4 è un minerale appartenente alla classe dei Solfuri, così denominata in onore del mineralogista austriaco Ignatius von Born.

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