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Orpiment & Realgar

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Description
Locality: 
Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.6 × 6.5 × 5.2 cm
Description

Big block of white brecciated quartz with numerous cavities all around richly filled by deep yellow crystallized orpiment, associated in radial groups, with minor red realgar. A good representative specimen from the Getchell Mine, hard to find now in the market.

Ex. René Virlet specimen, who exchanged it with Martin Ehrmann in 1972.

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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