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Native Arsenic & Xanthoconite

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Native Arsenic & Xanthoconite

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 137, Wolkenstein, Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4 × 6 × 3 cm
Description

Out of a mass of white baryte grow fibrous native arsenic crystals  together with dark red proustite and some polybasite. Orange red occurre xanthoconite crystals inbetween. A very special and rare sample of the Marienberg silver vein mineralization.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey

Xanthoconite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110