Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Polybasite & Proustite

Views:
Watches:
SER781670

Polybasite & Proustite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Imiter Mine, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.1 × 1.5 cm
Description

several exagonal, dark red polybasite crystals on acanthite with red proustite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Polybasite

Formula: 
[(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Strunz: 
2.GB.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
black

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5