Wittichenite
sold- Locality
- Cattle Grid Pit, Mount Gunson Copper mines, Stuart Shelf, South Australia, Australia
- Minerals
- Wittichenite
- Dimensions
- 1.3 x 1.1 x 0.4 cm
- Size class
- Thumbnail
- SID
- AU158
Single silvery metallic crystal of Wittichenite from the Cattle Grid Pit of the Mt. Gunson mine. Wittichenite is a very rare Copper and Bismuth sulfide mineral. This specimen is from a limited find in early 1980s that produce what are considered the finest known examples of the species. See the March-April 2013 issue of the Mineralogical Record for an article on this find.