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Diaphorite & Pyrargyrite

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Diaphorite & Pyrargyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Van Silver Mine, Brandywine Creek, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Small, well-formed, steel-gray to black striated diaphorite crystals and lustrous red metallic pyrargyrite crystals on matrix. Beautiful under magnification with some very good crystals of these silver-sulfosalts.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diaphorite

Formula: 
Ag3Pb2Sb3S8
Strunz: 
2.JB.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Pyrargyrite

Formula: 
Ag3SbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Ditrigonal Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.5
Cartils Minerals

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