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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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Xanthoconite & Proustite

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

On a cavernous matrix of Co-Ni-Arsenides as Skutterudite and Chloanthite perch plenty of calcite crystals together with elongated and well terminated vivid red lustrous proustite crystals together very good obtainable wax lustrous yellow orange  twinned prisms of xanthoconite. Well known from the Türkschacht area but very rare!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Proustite

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

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110