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Acanthite & Stephanite

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Acanthite & Stephanite

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Description
Locality: 
Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.5 × 1.4 cm
Description

Large lustrous acanthite crystals with smaller tabular stephanite and fluorite crystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
lead grey
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Stephanite

Formula: 
Ag5SbS4
Strunz: 
2.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany