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Native Silver Proustite & Fluorite

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Native Silver Proustite & Fluorite

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Description
Locality: 
Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.7 × 5.2 × 3.7 cm
Description

Herring bone silver crystals with red proustite crystals and minor violet fluorite crystals on native arsenic matrix

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic