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Bismite Psm Native Bismuth

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Bismite Psm Native Bismuth

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Description
Locality: 
St Georg Mine, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 5 × 2 cm
Description

A good specimen full of  bismite pseudomorphous after native bismuth (feather-bismuth) as well as bismutoferrite on matrix of typical gangue grey quartz.

This is a slightly radioactive mineral and human exposure should always be limited.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bismite

Formula: 
Bi2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.60
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Colavi Mine, Machacamarca District (Colavi District), Cornelio Saavedra Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia

Bismuth

Formula: 
Bi
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110