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Arsenolamprite Proustite & Pearceite

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Arsenolamprite Proustite & Pearceite

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Description
Locality: 
Glasberg Quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

Sparkling fan of arsenolamprite crystals with red proustite and tabular hexagonal crystals of pearceite from a classic German locality.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenolamprite

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.10
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Black.
Type Locality: 
Palmbaum Mine (Shaft 46), Gehringswalde, Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Pearceite

Formula: 
[(Ag,Cu)6(As,Sb)2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Strunz: 
2.GB.15
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
Type Locality: 
Mollie Gibson Mine (Molly Gibson Mine), Aspen, Aspen District (Roaring Fork District), Pitkin Co., Colorado, USA

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