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Native Arsenic

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Native Arsenic

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Description
Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 4.8 × 3.5 cm
Description

Shells of arsenic, forming part of a weathered nodule, whose concentric layered structure can still be recognized. This form of arsenic is known as Scherbenkobalt. Very good and old specimen from the famous Himmelsfürst mine.

According to the label it contains argyrodite too, but this is not verified.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenic

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