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Miargyrite

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Miargyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Mina Casualidad, Baños de Alhamilla, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.4 × 1.4 × 1 cm
Description

Miargyrite is a rare Silver-Antimony Sulfosalt.

This very good specimen comes form a recently published location in Spain where a very limited number of specimens could be found between 1998 and 2009. It shows beautiful sharp miargyrite crystals in a vug.

Specimen was XRD and electrone microprobe analyzed.

The recently published paper about the location is available for the buyer on request.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Miargyrite

Formula: 
AgSbS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany