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Orpiment

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Description
Locality: 
Twin Creeks Mine, Potosi District, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm
Description

Cluster of lustrous yellow orpiment crystals with some gemmyness, on matrix from the Twin Creeks mine. In very good condition.

Ex Henk Smeets #2842.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Orpiment

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

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