Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Skutterudite & Native Arsenic

Views:
Watches:
CAM211652

Skutterudite & Native Arsenic

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

Small grey crystals of native arsenic, something rare, on a cluster of lustrous intergrown crystals of skutterudite up to 7 mm.
A very nice specimen from this classic mining District.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Skutterudite

Formula: 
CoAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Skuterud Mines (Skutterud Mines; Modum Cobalt Mines), Modum, Buskerud, Norway

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey
Cartils Minerals

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps