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Realgar & Native Arsenic

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Realgar & Native Arsenic

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Description
Locality: 
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 11 × 3 cm
Description

A very attractive and showy specimen of hundreds of deep reed, lustrous realgar crystals all around the specimen.

With black globular native Arsenic.

Very good and colorful specimen !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Realgar

Formula: 
As4S4
Strunz: 
2.FA.15a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0

Arsenic

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