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Chalcostibite & Scainiite

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Chalcostibite & Scainiite

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Description
Locality: 
Ludovít Mine, Dúbrava, Liptovský Mikuláš County, Zilina Region, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.8 × 5.5 cm
Description

Offering here a unique sample found couple years back at Ludovit mine. It combines Chalcostibite & Scainiite on one single sample.

The specimen has grey needles of scainiite on one end of the sample and lustrous grey chalcostibite crystals on the other end. Attractive small cabinet piece. Along both described minerals, you can find also crystalline pyrite.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Scainiite

Formula: 
Pb14Sb30S54O5
Strunz: 
2.JB.35b
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Buca della Vena Mine, Ponte Stazzemese, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy

Chalcostibite

Formula: 
CuSbS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Graf Jost-Christian Mine, Wolfsberg, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany