Chabournéite xls; Jas Roux, Hautes-Alpes, France; Scab; unique piece
Chabournéite crystals from Jas Roux, Hautes-Alpes, France – small cabinet specimen as unique piece
Bright orange Chabourneite crystals cover the front face of this grey-toned matrix. The crystals are clearly visible, well-formed, and lustrous, creating a strong contrast with the underlying quartz-rich rock. The distribution is even and typical for the classic locality of Jas Roux, making this a visually appealing and geologically significant specimen.
Chabourneite is a rare copper-antimony sulfosalt, known from only a few localities worldwide. Jas Roux in the French Alps is among the most famous sources, but specimens of this size and quality have become increasingly hard to obtain.
Geology & Origin:
Jas Roux, located in the Hautes-Alpes region of southern France, is a classic site for rare secondary antimony and copper minerals. Chabourneite forms in hydrothermally altered veins in association with quartz, siderite, and sulfide minerals. Its intense color and rarity make it highly sought after by collectors of rare sulfosalts.
This table is for general information and orientation, although the sizes of the stones may vary. In addition, this specification is handled differently from region to region.
| Sizes | Description | approx. Sizes in mm/cm | approx. Sizes in INCH | |
| Capsule | Capsule | 0.1–0.5 mm in a transparent hard capsule (approx. 1 cm) | capsule contents 0.1–0.5 mm | capsule contents 0.004–0.02 in |
| TN/mm | Micromount (TN = Thumbnail) | everything fitting in a TN Perky box or a MM box of approx. 1 in | approx. 0.5–2.5 cm | max. 1 in |
| Min | Miniature specimen | will not fit a TN or MM box anymore | approx. 2.5–5 cm | approx. 0.2–1.0 in |
| Scab | small cabinet specimen | approx. one-third to half a hand size | approx. 5–9 cm | approx. 1.0–2.0 in |
| Cab | cabinet specimen | full hand size | approx. 9–15 cm | approx. 2.0–3.5 in |
| large Cab | large cabinet specimen | approx. two hand sizes | approx. 15–30 cm | approx. 3.5–6.0 in |
| very large Cab | very large cabinet specimen | everything larger, no upper limit |
Abbreviations commonly used in mineralogy.
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
| xl | single crystal, possible with matrix |
| xls | noticeable crystals |
| (xl) | embedded or damaged |
| (xls) | embeddet or damaged |
| MASS | massive and/or amorphous pieces |
| TYP | type locality of the original description |
| SWUV | shortwave-UV-reaction |
| UV | ultraviolet reaction |
| SC | self-collected |
| U | unique (single unique piece) |
Usage Instructions
This product is ideal as a collector's item, decorative element, teaching material, or for scientific and exhibition purposes.
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| shipment-weight, NOT netto weight (kg) | 0.100000 |
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