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Zinkenite & Miargyrite

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Zinkenite & Miargyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Animas Mine, Sud Chichas Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 1.6 × 1.8 cm
Description

Matrix with vugs containing acicular sprays of dark zinkenite crystals with lustrous silver miargyrite in the surrounding matrix. An unidentified yellow secondar mineral is also present. k1

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Zinkenite

Formula: 
Pb9Sb22S42
Strunz: 
2.JB.35a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Graf Jost-Christian Mine, Wolfsberg, Stolberg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Miargyrite

Formula: 
AgSbS2
Strunz: 
2.HA.10
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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