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Plagionite

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Description
Locality: 
Mina Casualidad, Baños de Alhamilla, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4 × 2.5 cm
Description

Plagionite is a rare Lead-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 plagionite crystals and globular crystal aggregate in vugs.

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

Plagionite

Formula: 
Pb5Sb8S17
Strunz: 
2.HC.10b
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Graf Jost-Christian Mine, Wolfsberg, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany