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Diaphorite & Miargyrite

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Diaphorite & Miargyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Van Silver Mine, Brandywine Creek, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Small, well-formed, steel-gray striated diaphorite crystals and lustrous black miargyrite crystals with some red internal reflections on a galena rich 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

Miargyrite

Formula: 
AgSbS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Cartils Minerals

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