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Proustite

Dr. Ing. H. Maucher, Munich
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm
Description

Dozens of silver-bearing crystals in a damaged glass flacon. Size given is for the flacon. Comes with a handwritten label of Dr. Ing. H. Maucher, Munich. I got that one with a silver collection, but due to the price tag on the label I doubt label and glass flacon belong together.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Proustite

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