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Stibnite With Gold

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Stibnite With Gold

Ex Lehnen collection, Möchgengladbach, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Tapada Mine, Medas, Gondomar, Porto District, Portugal
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 3.5 × 2.3 cm
Weight: 
22.00gr
Description

Piece of a quartz vein hosting a little vug with small lustrous acicular stibnite. On the backside you'll find a clearly visible, 4 mm sized gold bleb frozen in the quartz. Further amorphous stibnite is also present.

I was not able to verify a locality "Mina Tapota", therefore I guess it was a transcription error - the Tapada mine in the Porto (Oporto) District is described as an ancient Antimony mine, mining started in 1880. Gold is also described for that mine.

A rare and interesting combination specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stibnite

Formula: 
Sb2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Lead grey

Gold

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

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