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Clausthalite

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Description
Locality: 
Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Description

Dark grey metallic veins of clausthalite and probably tiemannite in matrix.

Historic specimen from the Magarete Mine in Clausthal.

Found in 1870

Clausthal is the Type Locality of clausthalite and tiemannite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clausthalite

Formula: 
PbSe
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
St Lorenz Mine, Burgstatt veins, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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