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Acanthite

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Description
Locality: 
Chispas Mine, Arizpe, Arizpe Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 1.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Beautiful specimen of shiny gray-silver metallic acanthite crystals, which show a blurred shape and so build up a beautiful step. Together with some white quartz. The crystal edge length of the acanthite is exactly 1 cm. Beautiful small display specimen with two corresponding labels.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
lead grey
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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