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Acanthite

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Description
Locality: 
San Carlos Mine, Aranzazú, Concepción del Oro Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 2.4 × 0.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

Absolutely stunning thumbnail in form of black, highly lustrous skeletal perfect crystals of acanthite up to 1.3 cm tall with no matrix from Fresnillo, Mexico. This piece is highly aesthetic, in form of a bird, great specimen for any thumbnail competition collection and/or for a collection of silver minerals.

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
Wendel Minerals

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