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Liveingite

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Liveingite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

Liveingite in a very rare lead, arsenic sulfosalt, found in only three localities worldwide and the Lengenbach Quarry is the Type Locality.

Splendent, gray, lamellar blades of liveingite crystal cluster of 1.3 cm in size on snow-white dolomite and is nicely complimented by pyrite and calcite.

Ex Rheinländer collection, Germany

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Liveingite

Formula: 
Pb9As13S28
Strunz: 
2.HC.05c
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland