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Sperrylite With Magnetite & Gold

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Sperrylite With Magnetite & Gold

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Description
Locality: 
Parkstetten, Straubing-Bogen, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm
Description

Concentrate of heavy minerals from washing processes in a very unusual place, the " Danubian fluvial placer (Donauplatin placer)".
It contains black magnetite, greyish sperrylite, a few grains of gold (see pics 4 & 5) and quartz. Very rare and hard-to-get material.

Size is given for the capsule.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sperrylite

Formula: 
PtAs2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 7.0
Colour: 
Tin-white
Type Locality: 
Vermilion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada

Magnetite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black

Gold

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

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