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Stibnite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 1.1 × 0.8 cm
Description

Metallic silver to brass steel coloured spear shaped crystal with good parallel terminations and wit smaller crystal on side making nice cluster. Terminated to all sides and faces.

Very good piece and rare thing to find these days.

Condition
General: 
Excellent - locality specimen
Main Crystal: 
Good - some minor contacts
Lustre: 
Bright Metallic
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stibnite

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

Peter Uerpmann Collection

Fri, 2016-09-30 19:31 -- admin
Some History
Dates: 
1970s- 
2002
Type: 
Collector/Collection
Specialisms: 
Aesthetics, Germany, Tsumeb
About

Peter Uerpmann originally studied mining at Clausthal University of Technology and then followed a career in the German/European Nuclear...