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Centennialite (IMA2013-110) with Calumetite
- Centennial mine
- Calumet
- Houghton County
- Michigan
- U.S.A.
- 3.1 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm – Thumbnail specimen (fits into a 2.5 cm cube)
Centennialite and calumetite are both hydrous calcium copper chlorides. Williams (1963) named calumetite after Calumet, a mining town on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. When re-investigating calumetite, Crichton & Müller (2017) proposed a new ideal formula for calumetite and also characterized an associated new mineral, which they named centennialite. The mineral name centennialite recalls the Centennial mine, which is the mine located at Calumet. This specimen comes from the type locality for both calumetite and centennialite.
Calumetite and centennialite form blue-green crusts on native copper which protrudes from conglomerate matrix. Our X-ray diffraction study of this specimen confirms the presence of centennialite.
Price: $100
Item code: MS1999
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