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Stibnite With Antimony Ochre

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Stibnite With Antimony Ochre

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
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Description
Locality: 
Heinrichsfreude Mine, Heinrichsruh, Schleiz, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 9 × 5 cm
Weight: 
303.00gr
Description

A mass of bright lustrous, crystalline stibnite in quartz matrix. Accompanied by brownish antimony ochre.

The exact locality is:
Heinrichsfreude mine, Heinrichsruh, Schleiz, Saale-Orla district, Thuringia (former GDR), Germany. The locality is listed in german "Mineralienatlas", but not in mindat and was a former antimony mine (Hänsel, R. (1946) "Der Schleizer Antimonbergbau" - The antimony mining of Schleiz.

Collected in 1988, just before German reunification.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stibnite

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

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