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Native Silver With Arsenolite On Native Arsenic

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Native Silver With Arsenolite On Native Arsenic

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Description
Locality: 
Alberoda, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 4.6 × 2.7 cm
Description

A specimen with very nice dendritic silver crystals on arsenic matrix partly covered with white arsenolite.

Rare and sought after combination.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Arsenolite

Formula: 
As2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.50
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Arsenic

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

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