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Realgar

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Description
Locality: 
Matra Mine, Moïta, Corte, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3.8 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Colorful specimen from the locality of Matra, Corsica, France. This locality is an old arsenic mine and has provided some of the most elegant realgar specimens Europe had to offer. The specimen is a crystalline mass of vivid red realgar, very lustrous and beautifully contrasting with the pale matrix. Upon close inspection, the mass is composed of hundreds of elongate crystals, and a couple of individuals are partially developed over the matrix.
Quite difficult to spot and very sought after.

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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