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Arsenolamprite

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Arsenolamprite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4 × 2.3 cm
Description

Sharp arsenolamprite crystals sitting in vugs of large skutterudite (smaltite) crystals together with rounded native arsen crystals and minor löllingite.

Old specimen from Siegfried Flach collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenolamprite

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Black.
Type Locality: 
Palmbaum Mine (Shaft 46), Gehringswalde, Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany