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Bohdanowiczite & Naumannite

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Bohdanowiczite & Naumannite

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Description
Locality: 
Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Grayish metallic grains and massive inclusions with a core of bohdanowiczite and rimmed by naumannite in a fluorite-quartz matrix. A good sample of this rare silver-bismuth-selenide from a find made at the Clara Mine several years ago. EDX/SEM analyzed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bohdanowiczite

Formula: 
AgBiSe2
Strunz: 
2.JA.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Kletno, Kłodzko District, Lower Silesia (Dolnośląskie), Poland

Naumannite

Formula: 
Ag2Se
Strunz: 
2.BA.55
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Tilkerode (Abberode), Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Cartils Minerals

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