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Silver & Stromeyerite

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Silver & Stromeyerite

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Description
Locality: 
Magma Mine, Pioneer District, Pinal Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 0.4 × 0.1 cm
Description

A lot of small specimens of leaf silver with stromeyerite, from the Koerner Vein of the Magma Mine, colleced in the 1940s.   The dimensions listed are for the elongated specimen at upper left in the first photo.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Stromeyerite

Formula: 
AgCuS
Strunz: 
2.BA.40
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Zmeinogorsk Mine (Zmyeinogorsk Mine; Snake Mountain Mine; Schlangenberg Mine), Zmeevka Stream, Korbalikha River, Alei River Basin, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western-Siberian Region, Russia

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