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Argentopyrite & Argentite

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Argentopyrite & Argentite

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Description
Locality: 
Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 4 × 2 cm
Description

On a matrix of drusy quartz, fluorite and minor barite occurre plenty crystals of light bronze metallic lustrous pseudohexagonal argentopyrite crystals together with rounded black dull cubes of argentite.The Argentopyrite is EDX confirmed. Typical but rare material from the last mining period in the 1950s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Argentopyrite

Formula: 
AgFe2S3
Strunz: 
2.CB.65
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
Grey.
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Argentite

Renamed To: 

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110