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Metastibnite & Stibnite

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Metastibnite & Stibnite

ex Ulrich Bode collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Zlatá Baňa, Ochtiná, Rožňava County, Košice Region, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 3.7 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very small crysals of dark red metastibnite with rosettes and groups of gray metalic lustrous stibnite. Stibnite rosettes have diameter to 5 mm.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metastibnite

Formula: 
Sb2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Steamboat Hot Springs, Steamboat Springs District, Washoe Co., Nevada, USA

Stibnite

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