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Smithite & Wakabayashilite

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Smithite & Wakabayashilite

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Description
Locality: 
Jas Roux, La Chapelle-en-Valgaudemar, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.6 × 1 cm
Description

A small but very nice specimen from Jas Roux with a good coverage of bright dark red smithite, a rare silver-sulfosalt, sprays of yellow wakabayashilite and some dull red masses of realgar.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smithite

Formula: 
AgAsS2
Strunz: 
2.GC.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Tabular crystals.
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

Wakabayashilite

Formula: 
[(As,Sb)6S9][As4S5]
Strunz: 
2.FA.40
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Nishinomaki Mine, Gunma Prefecture, Kanto region, Honshu Island, Japan
Cartils Minerals

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