University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Erazoite
Black erazoite inclusions (right; arrows) in baryite in paragenesis with olivenite (green) and scorodite (bright blue). Sample width: 4 cm.
Hölzel-No.
 
 
Type of specimen
 
HT
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
2014-061
Chemical formula
 
Cu4SnS6
Type locality
 
Chile, Antofagasta region, Guanaco (Huanaco), El Guanaco mine
Associated minerals
 
Baryte, olivenit, scorodite, enargite, goldfieldite, bismuthinite, covellite
Collection
 
Mineralogisches Museum - Universität Hamburg
Contact person
 
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schlüter
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
MD 717
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Mineral specimen
References

Erazoite, a new copper tin sulfide from the El Guanaco gold deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile.
Schlüter, J., Malcherek, T., Stanley, C., Dini, M. and Molina Donoso, A. (2017)
N. Jb. Miner. Abh. (J. Min. Geochem.), 194/1, 91-96
Notes / Further information

Found by Arturo Molina Donoso, Iquique, Chile, in 2012.
Last update 27. April 2022 by A. Matthies Imprint (german)