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Kermesite Valentinite & Stibnite

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Kermesite Valentinite & Stibnite

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Description
Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm
Description

An excellent specimen from Saxony with a very rich coverage of sprays of lustrous red acicular kermesite crystals and small colourless valentinite crystals on typical quarts matrix, associated with some minor small stibnite crystals.
A fine old classic sample from the Type Locality, in this quality hard to get nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kermesite

Formula: 
Sb2S2O
Strunz: 
2.FD.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Colour: 
Red
Type Locality: 
Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Valentinite

Formula: 
Sb2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.55
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Les Chalanches Mine, Allemont, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France

Stibnite

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

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