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Semseyite

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Description
Locality: 
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Mare, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 4.4 × 3.7 cm
Description

Sharp aggregates of laminar Semseyite crystals to 7 mm, very bright and well distributed across the entire surface of a matrix, that it is form by bright globular siderite, black sphalerite, pyrite, galena and quartz. The rear side is crystallized too, where metallic brown and grey acicular boulangerite is filling the spaces. An aesthetic representative sample of this rare lead and antimony sulphide from the Herja Mine.

Found in 1993 it was part of the collection of Mr. Johann Muizebelt.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Semseyite

Formula: 
Pb9Sb8S21
Strunz: 
2.HC.10d
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Baia Sprie mine (Felsöbánya mine), Baia Sprie (Felsöbánya), Maramureș Co., Romania

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