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Proustite With Native Arsenic

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Proustite With Native Arsenic

Ex Christian Rewitzer
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Description
Locality: 
Oberschlema, Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
189.00gr
Description

Scattered, high lustrous proustite crystals in a vuggy ore matrix consisting mainly of native arsenic. With intensive lighting, the proustite crystals shows their typical, cherry-red color. The Arsenic exhibits some botryoidal forms on the one side of the specimen (see pic 6).

Old and classic material from famous Schlema mining area. Ex Chr. Rewitzer.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey

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