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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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Description
Locality: 
Imiter Mine, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 4.8 × 3.5 cm
Description

This is one of the best xanthoconite specimen form Imiter I ever had.

It shows fantastic orangebrown crystals of xanthoconite up to 2 mm together with redd proustite crystals up to 4 mm.

With minor polybasite crystals.

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