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Sternbergite

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Sternbergite

Rare Minerals - Classic locality
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Description
Locality: 
Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Sharp tabular sternbergite crystals with argentopyrite and Proustite  crystals on native Arsenic

Very good, EDX analyzed specimen from Siegfried Flach collectio

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sternbergite

Formula: 
AgFe2S3
Strunz: 
2.CB.65
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Sternbergite
Analysis Report - only: Sternbergite
Analysis Report - only: Sternbergite
Analysis Report - only: Sternbergite