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Bismuth & Safflorite

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Bismuth & Safflorite

Ex Joachim Hennrich Collection
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Description
Locality: 
Mackenheim, Abtsteinach, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.9 × 5.8 × 4.9 cm
Description

This is a super specimen of well defined, sharp crystals of mirror bright native bismuth, accompanied by botryoidal aggregates of metallic lustrous safflorite. This excellent specimen was found in the best period of the Mackenheim Quarry at the end of the last century,- and this was one of the very good specimen there. Good finds at Mackenheim are history and such items are mostly impossible to get nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bismuth

Formula: 
Bi
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Safflorite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Fe)As2
Strunz: 
2.EB.15a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
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