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Bornite, also known as peacock ore, is a sulfide mineral with chemical composition that crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (pseudo-cubic). It is an important copper ore.
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
- Subclass of
- sulfide class of minerals
- 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
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- density
- 5.10
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Bn
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- II/A.02
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