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Silver & Acanthite

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Description
Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.9 × 1.8 × 0.3 cm
Description

very nice specimen of well crystallized, lustrous, dendritc silver,

combined with small calcite crystalls

partly coated with non-lustrous grey acanthite - no matrix

with label - ex Siegfried Flach collection

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
lead grey
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
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