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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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Xanthoconite & Proustite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Imiter Mine, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 1.7 × 1.2 cm
Description

Beautiful small specimen of hundresd of deep red proustite crystals up to 2 mm and smaller brown to orange, tabular xanthoconite very rich on all sides of the specimen.

With minor polybasite microcrystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Xanthoconite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5