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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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Description
Locality: 
Alte Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Kleinvoigtsberg, Freiberg District, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Description

An excellent classic piece from the Freiberg area with a very rich coverage small clusters of highly lustrous orange brown microcrystals of xanthoconite and red proustite crystals on barite matrix. Beautiful under magnification.

From my own collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Xanthoconite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Cartils Minerals

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