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Miargyrite & Ramdohrite

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Miargyrite & Ramdohrite

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Description
Locality: 
Mina Casualidad, Baños de Alhamilla, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.8 × 5.8 cm
Description

Miargyrite is a rare Silver-Antimony Sulfosalt, Ramdohrite a extremely rare Lead-Antimony-Silver sulfosalt.

This very good specimen comes form a recently published location in Spain where a very limited number of specimens could be found between 1998 and 2009. It shows beautiful sharp miargyrite crystals in a vug together with ramdohrite needles and hedgehogs.

Acanthite microcrystals and bournonite are present too.

Specimen was XRD and electrone microprobe analyzed.

The recently published paper about the location is available for the buyer on request.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Miargyrite

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

Ramdohrite

Formula: 
(Cd,Mn,Fe)Ag5.5Pb12Sb21.5S48
Strunz: 
2.JB.40a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0
Type Locality: 
Chocaya mine, Chocaya-Animas (Animas-Chocaya), Atocha-Quechisla District, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia