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Proustite Chloanthite & Native Arsenic

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Proustite Chloanthite & Native Arsenic

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 250, Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 7.5 × 5 cm
Description

Erzgebirge specimen originating from shaft 250 at Niederschlema: intense cherry red proustite crystals settle on a mass of  native arsenic intergrown with some silvery sulfides/sulfarsenides (chloantite/Ni-skutterudite etc.).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Chloanthite

Variety Of: 

Nickelskutterudite

Formula: 
NiAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Formula: 
NiAs2 - excess As up to As2.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey

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Best regards Roger

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