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Liveingite

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Liveingite

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.8 × 1.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

Nice liveingite showing striated prism faces, in the classic sugar dolomite from this classic locality. Liveingite in a very rare lead, arsenic sulfosalt, member of the sartorite group, found in few localities worldwide and the Grube Lengenbach is the Type Locality. Former specimen collected in 1970.

Collected: 
1970
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Liveingite

Formula: 
Pb9As13S28
Strunz: 
2.HC.05c
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland