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Marrite

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Description
Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

Extremely rare dull marrite crystals (a silver lead sulphosalt), from the only known locality for marrite worldwide.

Marrite is one of the rarest Lengenbach minerals.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Marrite

Formula: 
AgPbAsS3
Strunz: 
2.JB.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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