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Sylvanite

Rare Mineral - Ex K. Eggerth Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Săcărâmb, Deva, Hunedoara County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.3 × 1.7 cm
Description

You are bidding on an oldtimed specimen from K. Eggerth, Vienna collection. This fine specimen comes with the original label. The specimen features several indistinct crystals of rare gold-telluride sylvanite richly perched on a sod of glistening crystalline quartz. A good specimen in very good shape from the old times of the so called "golden triangle" in Transylvania.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sylvanite

Formula: 
(Au,Ag)2Te4
Strunz: 
2.EA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Baia de Arieş (Offenbánya), Alba Co., Romania
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