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Orpiment & Realgar

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Description
Locality: 
Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Deep orange crystallized orpiment, in very good condition damage-wise, associated to prismatic red crystals of realgar. A good representative specimen from the Getchell Mine.

According to the associated label Mr. René Virlet exchanged it with Mrs Marion Godshaw in 1975.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Orpiment

Formula: 
As2S3
Strunz: 
2.FA.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0

Realgar

Formula: 
As4S4
Strunz: 
2.FA.15a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0

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