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Pyrostilpnite & Pyrargyrite

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Pyrostilpnite & Pyrargyrite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Le Rivet Quarry, Peyrebrune, Montredon-Labessonnié, Tarn, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm
Description

A small but super developed, hexagonal crystal of rare silver sulfosalt pyrostilpnite accompanied by deep red, elongated pyrargyrite and tiny, grey wires of native silver. Of course, the orange-brown pyrostilpnite is high lustrous and sharp edged. A good thumbnail specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrostilpnite

Formula: 
Ag3SbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.10
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Churprinz Friedrich August Erbstolln Mine (Churprinz Mine; Kurprinz Mine), Großschirma, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Pyrargyrite

Formula: 
Ag3SbS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Ditrigonal Pyramidal
Hardness: 
2.5
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