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Samsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Samson Mine, St Andreasberg, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 cm
Description

Very small black metallic samsonite crystals in matrix of quartz of this extremely rare Ag-Mn sulphide, known from a very few localities worldwide, being this one from the type locality in Samson mine.

No more specimens are available.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Samsonite

Formula: 
Ag4MnSb2S6
Strunz: 
2.GA.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Samson Mine, St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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