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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: 
2.7 × 1.2 × 0.6 cm
Description

Outstanding silvery crystals of the very rare Pb-Sb sulfochloride mineral from one of the only two known localities worldwide.

Rare in this quality!

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
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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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