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Roshchinite

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Description
Locality: 
Kvartsitovje Gorki, Aksu, Stepnogorsk, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.05 × 0.05 × 0.05 cm
Description

Two very small single black crystals of the extremely rare Ag-Pb-Sb sulphosalt mineral roshchinite from the TL in Kazakhstan.

Probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum, but the analysis is no longer available)

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

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Only three localities known worldwide !

Probably analyzed by the former owner of the specimen (the Vandenbroucke Museum, but the analysis is no longer available)

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Roshchinite

Formula: 
Ag19Pb10Sb51S96
Strunz: 
2.JB.40a
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Kvartsitovje Gorki Au deposit (Quartzite Hills), Aksu (Aqsu), Stepnogorsk, Akmola Province (Aqmola Oblysy; Akmolinskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan...

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