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Arsenopyrite & Quartz

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Arsenopyrite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Olympiada Mine, Cassandra Mines, Aristotelis, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 6.5 × 2.8 cm
Description

Well shaped sharp silver colored arsenopyrite crystals of top metallic luster nicely set  on transparent quartz at both sides of specimen. Old material from the upper levels of Olympiada mine, now classic and hard to find. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenopyrite

Formula: 
FeAsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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