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Iodargyrite

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Iodargyrite

Ex Jose Rees Collection (Sydney)

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3.8 × 2.3 cm
Description

Mined during the late 1930's and early 1940's this iodargyrite is one of the most difficult silver chloride minerals to get today in fresh unaltered crystals.
This vughy gossan is loaded is clear hexagonal and twinned plates of iodargyrite, one side that has limited exposure to light is showing the commonly seen yellow colour.
This material is classic Broken Hill, having been packed away in the mid 1970's and just recently unpacked.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Iodargyrite

Formula: 
AgI
Strunz: 
3.AA.10
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Albarradón Mine, Albarradón, Mun. de Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico
Earthstones Australia

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