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Clausthalite

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Clausthalite

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 38, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 5.4 × 2.3 cm
Description

Very rich specimen of intergrown, grey metalic clausthalite in matrix.

Ex Bergakademie Freiberg specimen - with original label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clausthalite

Formula: 
PbSe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
St Lorenz Mine, Burgstatt veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany