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Pyrostilpnite

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Pyrostilpnite

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Description
Locality: 
Churprinz Friedrich August Erbstolln Mine, Großschirma, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.8 × 1.5 cm
Description

Type locality! This specimen comes with an old label and hosts the rare monoclinic dimorph of pyrargyrite on quartz matrix. Beautiful elongated pyrostilpnite on quartz. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrostilpnite

Formula: 
Ag3SbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.10
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Churprinz Friedrich August Erbstolln Mine (Churprinz Mine; Kurprinz Mine), Großschirma, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany