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Chloanthite & Wurtzite

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Chloanthite & Wurtzite

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Description
Locality: 
Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4 × 5 × 3 cm
Description

A cluster with combinations of cubes and octahedrons of chloanthite partially overgrown with nice brown translucent crystals of wurzite as well as dendridic light metallic lustrous perfectly crystallized  trees of skutterudite on the back, partially perimorphous after native silver from famous Pöhla mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chloanthite

Variety Of: 

Nickelskutterudite

Formula: 
NiAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Formula: 
NiAs2 - excess As up to As2.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Wurtzite

Formula: 
(Zn,Fe)S
Strunz: 
2.CB.45
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
Brown
Type Locality: 
San José Mine, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia

Seller Information

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110