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Sylvanite

Rare Mineral
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Description
Locality: 
Săcărâmb, Deva, Hunedoara County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.8 × 2.1 cm
Description

This fine specimenfeatures several of metallic mirror bright and well defined crystals of raregolg-silver-telluride sylvanite on tiny quartz. The crystals are showing a typically growing pattern, in the old German miner slang as so called "Schrifterz" ("scrpture ore"). A good and rich specimen with fine crystals.

Typelocality of sylvanite is indeed a Transylvanian locale, but it is Baia de Aries and not Săcărâmb.

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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