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Livingstonite

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Description
Locality: 
Huitzuco de los Figueroa Mines, Huitzuco de los Figueroa Municipality, Guerrero, Mexico
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.5 × 1 cm
Description

Bright steel metallic cleavages of Livingstonite associated with stibnite. This rich and showy specimen hails from the Type Locality - Huitzuco, Guerrero, Mexico Livingstonite is a very rare mercury, antimony sulfosalt. Old material cca 1956, from EX. Trdlicka Collection. It is a very rare specimen with superb crystals for the material.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Livingstonite

Formula: 
HgSb4S6(S2)
Strunz: 
2.JA.05i
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Huitzuco de los Figueroa (Huitzuco), Mun. de Huitzuco, Guerrero, Mexico