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Pyrargyrite & Argentopyrite

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Pyrargyrite & Argentopyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 38, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.8 × 0.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

A beautiful metallic lustrous floater of crystallized pyrargyrite with crystallized argentopyrite elongated prisms on the back from famous "Brahma" vein. Nice and rare. Nothing more to say.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrargyrite

Formula: 
Ag3SbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Ditrigonal Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.5

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

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110