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Sylvanite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Last Dollar Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2 × 1.7 cm
Description

Sylvanite is a rare Gold-Silver telluride of composition (Au, Ag)2Te4. There are only 11 species (of almost 5000) that contains at the same time Gold and Silver in the composition. This mineral is one of them !. The specimen has some well formed crystals !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sylvanite

Formula: 
(Au,Ag)2Te4
Strunz: 
2.EA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Baia de Arieş (Offenbánya), Alba Co., Romania

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