djurleita forma parte de la clase de los minerales sulfuros, concretamente un sulfuro de cobre. Se le nombró así en honor del químico sueco Seved Djurle.
Estrechamente relacionado con la calcosina, otro sulfuro de cobre, a veces para distinguirlos se requieren complicadas tecnologías de laboratorio como la difracción de rayos X. Pertenece al grupo de la calcosina-digenita.
Aparece en las zonas de enriquecimiento secundario de yacimientos de cobre. Es extraído y explotado industrialmente como mena del cobre.
Es común encontrarlo asociado a otros minerales, como son: pirita, digenita, calcopirita, bornita y anilita.
Formula:
Cu31S16
System:
Monoclinic
Colour:
Black, gray in reflected ...
Hardness:
2½ - 3
Name:
Named in 1962 by Eugene Holloway Roseboom, Jr. in honor of Dr. Seved Djurle [August 18, 1928 Sweden – October 4, 2000 Sweden], professor of chemistry at University of Uppsala, Sweden who first synthesized the synthetic equivalent before the mineral was discovered. {Note: Seved Djurle's birth year is frequently given as 1918 as various websites merely copy numbers without verification.}
Chalcocite-Digenite Group.
A copper sulphide closely related to chalcocite and easily confused with the latter.
Identification requires XRD or other suitable methods.
A copper sulphide closely related to chalcocite and easily confused with the latter.
Identification requires XRD or other suitable methods.
enargita es un mineral del grupo de los sulfuros, y dentro de estos al subgrupo de la estannita. Químicamente es un sulfuro de arsénico y cobre. Presenta como aspecto típico un hábito masivo negro, aunque también puede adoptar la forma de cristales alargados rayados.
Fue descrita por primera vez en 1850 en Perú.1 Su nombre procede del griego enarges, que significa distinto, por su exfoliación. Sinónimos en español muy poco usados son clarita, garbita y guayacanita.
Es el extremo con arsénico de una serie de minerales de solución sólida en la que el otro extremo es la famatinita Cu3SbS4 . Espolimorfo de la luzonita, con su misma fórmula pero tetragonal.
La enargita es un mineral secundario formado en rocas metamórficas mediante metamorfismo hidrotermal de temperatura media, por lo que aparece en vetas hidrotermales.
Minerales asociados suelen ser: cuarzo, bornita, galena, esfalerita, tennantita, calcocita, calcopirita, covellina, pirita y otros sulfuros.
Aparecen yacimientos en Montana, Colorado y Utah (EE. UU.), Sonora (México), Argentina, Chile, Morococha y Cerro de Pasco(Perú) y en la isla de Luzón (Filipinas). En España se encuentra en con trazas de hierro en Andújar (Jaén) y en Cartagena(Murcia).
Enargite : Cu3AsS4
Julcani Mine, Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, PeruDimensions: 5 cm x 3.5 cm x 1.5 cm
Large, prismatic crystals of enargite with iridescent, red-purple surface coating. Excellent large crystals. Illustrated specimen in the CD-ROM: Photographic Guide to Mineral Species (Excalibur, 1999). Ex. Dr. J. Weissman (author of the CD-ROM: Photographic Guide to Mineral Species). Overall size of mineral specimen: 5x3.5x1.5 cm. Size of individual crystals: 3-12 mm.
Enargite : Cu3AsS4
Steirische Kalkspitze, Giglach lakes, Giglach valley, Schladminger Tauern, Schladming, Styria, AustriaField of View: 5.3 mm
Enargite crystal in matrix. Note the characteristic perfect cleavage.
SXRD-analysed.
Photo Harald Schillhammer.
This photo was originally published in:
Schachinger, T., Kolitsch, U., Bernhard, F. & Bojar, H.-P. (2014): Erzmineralisationen und ihre Verwitterungsprodukte aus dem weiteren Bereich der Steirischen und Lungauer Kalkspitze. Der Steirische Mineralog 28, 8-21.
Enargite : Cu3AsS4
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruDimensions: 4.2 cm x 3 cm x 2.5 cm
An aesthetic cluster of sharp enargite crystals, of a fine gunmetal luster, with the characteristic blunt terminations. The crystals measure to about 1.3 cm. There are a few missing crystals down amongst the cluster but not enough to detract significantly. This aesthetic miniature-sized specimen came out of the Don Belsher Collection last year. 4.2 x 3 x 2.5 cm (ex. Don Belsher Collection)
Enargite : Cu3AsS4, Fluorite : CaF2, Pyrite : FeS2
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruThe crystals are very sharp and bright, which is not so common with the Peruvian samples of Enargite. They are with small crystals of Fluorite and on a metallic matrix rich with Pyrite.
Quiruvilca, Departamento La Libertad, Peru.
Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.8 × 3.9 cm
Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm
Fluorite fluorescent with long UV and minor fluorescence with short UV
Enargite : Cu3AsS4, Pyrite : FeS2
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruDimensions: 3 cm x 2 cm x 1 cm
Grey metallic striated enargite crystals to 10 mm long mixed with brassy metallic pyrite crystals to 5 mm. Ex. R. Bates Collection #756.
Overall size of mineral specimen: 3x2x1 cm.
Size of individual crystals: 3-10 mm.
Enargite : Cu3AsS4
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruDimensions: 3.9 cm x 3.2 cm x 1.9 cm
You couldn''t ask for a much better enargite mini than this -- with sharp, stacked terminated crystals, beautifully defined. This piece came out of the Don Belsher collection, recently dispersed. 3.9 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm
Enargite : Cu3AsS4, Tetrahedrite : Cu6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruDimensions: 8.1 cm x 6.2 cm x 3.3 cm
Group of prismatic crystals with pinacoidal terminations. They are all partially covered by small tetrahedral crystals of Tetrahedrite.
Mina La Libertad, Quiruvilca, Departamento La Libertad, Peru.
Specimen size: 8.1 x 6.2 x 3.3 cm
Main crystal size: 4.3 x 1.3 cm
Enargite : Cu3AsS4
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruEnargite. R. Kosnar specimen (1972). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
Enargite : Cu3AsS4, Pyrite : FeS2
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruDimensions: 5.5 cm x 3.1 cm x 1.2 cm
Enargite accompanied with pyrite. Overall specimen size 5,5 x 3,1 x 1,2 cm. Enargite xls up to 6 mm.
Marek Patúš photo & collection #1403
Enargite : Cu3AsS4, Pyrite : FeS2, Quartz : SiO2
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, La Libertad Department, PeruDimensions: 3.2 cm x 3 cm x 2 cm
3.2 x 3.0 x 2.0 cm. The Quiruvilca Mine of Peru produced some of the world’s finest enargite specimens in the 1970s and this is an outstanding example. Splendent, well-striated, sharply terminated, metallic-gray prisms to 2.3 cm are aesthetically clustered to form a striking specimen. The enargites are beautifully complemented by brassy, tiny pyrite pyritohedrons and quartz crystals. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
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