
General Information:

Chemical Formula:
CuBiS2

Composition:
(Molecular Weight = 336.66 gm)
Copper 18.88 %
CuBismuth 62.07 %
BiSulfur 19.05 %
S 
Empirical Formula:
CuBiS2

Locality:
Czechoslovakia at Schlaggenwald, Bohemia.

Name Origin:
From the Greek emplektos, "interwoven."
Physical Properties:

Cleavage:
[001] Perfect

Color:
gray, grayish yellow, silver white, or tin white.

Density:
6.3 - 6.5, Average = 6.4

Diaphaniety:
Opaque

Habits:
Prismatic - Crystals Shaped like Slender Prisms (e.g. tourmaline)., Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix., Massive - Fibrous - Distinctly fibrous fi ne-grained forms.

Hardness:
2 - Gypsum

Luminescence:
Non-fluorescent.

Luster:
Metallic

Streak:
black
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