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Hessite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Botești, Zlatna, Alba County, Romania
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 3 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

Hessite is a very rare silver telluride that occurs at its best, in large crystals as you see here, only from this old classic locality. A dramatic and very large hessite crystal sitting aesthetically with several smaller crystals on top of the matrix.The piece retains its original patina, un-cleaned by any acids or chemicals to brighten the hessite (although this is easily done with silver cleaners).Very good old specimen - ex Rob Lavinsky specimen and label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessite

Formula: 
Ag2Te
Strunz: 
2.BA.60
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Koz'modem'yanskii shaft, Second Zavodinskii Mine (Second Sawodinsk Mine), Zyryanovsk Rayon, Altai Mts (Rudnyi Altai), Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...