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Ardaite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Gruvåsen Mines, Persberg, Filipstad, Värmland County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm
Description

Dark greenish grey microcrystals of the very rare mineral ardaite, a Pb-Sb sulphochloride found in only two localities worldwide, associated to galenite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ardaite

Formula: 
Pb19Sb13S35Cl7
Strunz: 
2.LB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Madjarovo deposit (Madyarovo deposit; Madzharovo deposit), Rhodope Mts, Haskovo Oblast (Khaskovo Oblast), Bulgaria

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