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Arsenic On Stibnite

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Arsenic On Stibnite

Rare Mineral
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Kusa Mine, Bau, Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 2.9 × 3 cm
Description

Actually native arsenic is not a really rare species, but they are idiomorphic crystals. In this case, there are small but distinctive slighty rounded tombac brown crystals of arsenic perched on elongated stibnite. So rare and so typical for that Malaysian locality. I saw just a few at all in my entire life,- and this is the first specimen I handle. Just superb. One of the few localities of crystallized native arsenic in the world.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey

Stibnite

Formula: 
Sb2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Lead grey
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