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Realgar

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Description
Locality: 
Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 3.2 × 2.6 cm
Description

Chalk matrix partially covered by lustrous crystals of realgar of intense reddish orange colour.

Ex René Virlet collection. Mr. René Virlet bought it from L.Van Wambeke* in 1972 for 530 Belgian francs.

*Leopold Van Wambeke was a Belgian geologist, who worked in the Ex Belgian Congo, expert in Kobokobo, and named Eylettersite after his wife (Lea Eyletters).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Realgar

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

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