Mineralpedia Details for Digenite
Digenite
- Formula
- Cu1.8S
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Crystal Habit
- Pseudo Cubic
- Cleavage
- Indistinct, None, None
- Luster
- Sub Metallic
- Color
- blue, dark blue, black
- Streak
- grayish black
- Class
- Trigonal - Hexagonal Scalenohedral
- Fracture
- Brittle - Conchoidal
- Hardness
- 2.5-3
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Digenite from Leonard mine, Butte dist., Silver Bow Co., Montana, United States
A cabinet specimen with a deep bluish black, metallic 2.5cm thick vein shooting up through sulfide matrix.
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