Switch currency

Xanthoconite & Proustite

Views:
Watches:
CR30668

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Imiter Mine, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.6 × 5.5 × 3 cm
Description

An other very rich specimen of deep red proustite crystals up to 4 mm together with dozends of orangebrown xanthoconite crystals on a silver rich galena matrix.

With minor microcrystals of fettelite and native silver.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Xanthoconite

Formula: 
Ag3AsS3
Strunz: 
2.GA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Proustite

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