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Arsenic & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Akadani Mine, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm
Description

This is a rare, old and classic floater ball of sharp, gray, rhombohedral natural arsenic crystals from this famous Japanese locality. Akatani mine was an antimony mine, but much more famous to collectors for its classic balls of rhombohedral arsenic crystals (perhaps the world's best crystallized native arsenic). With a copy of the ancient label of Dr. Hugo Francke (beggining XXth, Dresden, Germany).

Collected: 
1870
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
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