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Pyrostilpnite

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Pyrostilpnite

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Description
Locality: 
Fischbacher Werk Mine, Niederfischbach, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.3 × 0.4 cm
Description

Intense orange-red lath of pyrostilpnite among siderite and galena. 

Rare mineral from an old collection. 

 

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