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Kermesite Metastibnite & Valentinite

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Kermesite Metastibnite & Valentinite

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Description
Locality: 
Lac Nicolet Mine, Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, Centre-du-Québec, Québec, Canada
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.1 × 1.2 cm
Description

A specimen with dark maroon kermesite in solid sprays, with small quantities of silvery radiating stibnite, massive to crystalline cream-grey valentinite, and a small group of metastibnite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kermesite

Formula: 
Sb2S2O
Strunz: 
2.FD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Colour: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Metastibnite

Formula: 
Sb2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Streak: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Steamboat Hot Springs, Steamboat Springs District, Washoe Co., Nevada, USA

Valentinite

Formula: 
Sb2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Les Chalanches Mine, Allemont, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
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