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Native Silver Erythrite & Asbolane

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Native Silver Erythrite & Asbolane

Comptoir Mineralogique et Geologique Suisse
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Schattberg, Hinterglemm, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.9 × 3.8 × 3.4 cm
Weight: 
118.00gr
Description

Very old specimen from an unkown locality near schattberg in tyrol. Silver is not yet describtion from this locality, see mindat too.

Asbolane and erythrite show only crust. Only the silver shows dentrites and so on.

The company operates at this address between 1895 and 1925, after which it moved. See label archive of mineralogical record.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Erythrite

Formula: 
Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Asbolane

Formula: 
(Ni,Co)2-xMn4+(O,OH)4·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.FL.30
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0