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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: 
6.2 × 5.8 × 4.5 cm
Description

Dozens of beautiful orangebrown xanthoconite microcrystals all over the specimen with deep red prousite crystals up to 3 mm on silver rich galena.

This extremely rich specimen has also black tabular polybasite crystals.

More informations on the famous Imiter Mine at LAPIS 12.2009!

 

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