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Acanthite

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Description
Locality: 
Lawson Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Blue-ish grey acanthite leaves and masses on botryoids of safflorite that are covered with shiny micro-skutterudite crystals in association with a few prismatic arsenopyrite crystals.  

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
lead grey
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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