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Stibnite & Quartz

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Stibnite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Flying Fox Mine, Steels Creek, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
1.2 × 4.7 × 1.5 cm
Description

A flattened group of stibnite crystals with drusy quartz from the Steele's Creek Antimony Mine which was worked for antimony and gold from the 1840' s and again in the early 1980's when operations were stopped just after the initial development work was completed due to comcerns about mercury and cyanide pollution being disturbed from the work done in the area in the 1840's

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stibnite

Formula: 
Sb2S3
Strunz: 
2.DB.05
Hardness: 
2.0
Streak: 
Lead grey

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
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