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Getchellite

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Getchellite

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Description
Locality: 
Mednaya Gorka, Khaidarkan, Batken, Kyrgyzstan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 4.8 × 4.5 cm
Description

Choice, layered crystals of this very rare arsenic antimony sulfide, it developed intense blood-red crystals, which show great contrast to grey matrix. Very rare material, hard to obtain!

Mineral Data
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Getchellite

Formula: 
AsSbS3
Strunz: 
2.FA.35
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Getchell Mine (North Pit; Center pit; South pit), Adam Peak, Potosi District, Osgood Mts, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA