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Owyheeite

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Owyheeite

Rare Mineral
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Description
Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.9 × 1.5 × 0.8 cm
Description

Fibrous-acicular crystals of rare sulfosalt owyheeite on matrix. A typically specimen in good shape. Analysed by former, alas passed away curator of TU Freiberg, Dr. Fritz Hoffmann.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Owyheeite

Formula: 
Ag3+xPb10-2xSb11+xS28, -0.13 < x > +0.20
Strunz: 
2.HC.35
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Poorman Mine (Oso; Belle Peck Tunnels), Silver City District (Carson District), Owyhee Co., Idaho, USA
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