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Stephanite

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 366, Alberoda, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm
Description

A floater sample consisting of nothing but twinned black metallic lustrous  hexagonal perfectly crystallized stephanite up to 0.8 cm wide. A find from the 1950s from the famous Brahmaputra vein which was famous rather for pyrargyrite and more seldom stephanite. Killer piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stephanite

Formula: 
Ag5SbS4
Strunz: 
2.GB.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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