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Pyrargyrite & Polybasite

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Pyrargyrite & Polybasite

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Description
Locality: 
Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 1.6 × 1 cm
Description

Plates of metallic black polybasite rest on purargyrite crystals, some showing a good red flash and associated with minor calcite crystals

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrargyrite

Formula: 
Ag3SbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Ditrigonal Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.5

Polybasite

Formula: 
[(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Strunz: 
2.GB.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
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