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Amalgam

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 2.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

Silvery white crystallised silver amalgam sitting between olivenite crystals and cuprian adamite crystals.

This very rare mineral in Tsumeb was found on the 44th level in 1992.

Published in LAPIS Magazine 3.1994 page 23 ff.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Amalgam

Variety Of: 

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Formula: 
(Ag,Hg)
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5