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Playfairite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Austin, Lander County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.36 × 0.6 cm
Description

Outstanding platy silvery crystals of the very rare sulphosalt mineral playfairite from a Nevada locality.

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

Only 4 localities known worldwide !

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

No duplicates available

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Playfairite

Formula: 
Pb16(Sb,As)19S44Cl
Strunz: 
2.LB.30
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Taylor Pit, Huntingdon Township, Madoc area, Hastings Co., Ontario, Canada

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