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Argentite On Quartz

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Argentite On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 4.5 × 1 cm
Description

A specimen consisting of milky quartz matrix and minor dolomite is coveres with a thick sheet of argentite on front and back. Very rare material from the  19. century when the former older excavations where reinvestigated.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Argentite

Renamed To: 

Acanthite

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110