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Formula: Cu2-xTe
Telluride
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Specific gravity: 5.83 calculated
Hardness: 3
Streak: Black
Colour: Bluish black, black (tarnished)
Environments
Weissite occurs in hydrothermal veins with other tellurides
(HOM).
Localities
At the Kalgurli Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, weissite is associated with
gold, calaverite and
krennerite
(HOM).
At the type locality, the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Vulcan Mining District, Gunnison county, Colorado, USA, weissite is associated with
pyrite, tellurium,
sylvanite, petzite,
rickardite and sulphur
(HOM).
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