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Vikingite

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Vikingite

ex Americo Urbinati collection

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Description
Locality: 
Apache Hills, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 2.6 × 2.1 cm
Description

grey metallic, tiny crystals of vikingite, a rare silver sulphosalt

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vikingite

Formula: 
Ag5Pb8Bi13S30
Strunz: 
2.JB.40a
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland