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Proustite With Native Arsenic & Dyscrasite

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Proustite With Native Arsenic & Dyscrasite

Ex Alex Franz, Düsseldorf, Germany, ex Freiberg Mining Academy, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 6 × 3 cm
Weight: 
285.00gr
Description

Massive and heavy native arsenic is hosting small vugs lined with brilliant, silvery-metallic dyskrasite microcrystals and some scattered, mm-sized bright red proustite crystals.

A saxon classic which comes with Alex Franz label plus label of the Freiberg mining academy (Geoscience section) dated after 1970, and on-glued corresponding number sticker.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Proustite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

Arsenic

Formula: 
As
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Grey

Dyscrasite

Formula: 
Ag3Sb
Strunz: 
2.AA.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Wenzel Mine, Frohnbach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Germany (trackable & insured, up to 5 kg)
7
EU countries (trackable, up to 2 kg)
13
Switzerland and UK (trackable, up to 2 kg)
18
Rest of World (trackable, up to 2 kg)
22.50

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