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Vikingite

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Vikingite

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Description
Locality: 
La Mothe Quarry, La Roche-Ballue, Bouguenais, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2 × 0.7 cm
Description

Dark grey metallic grains and masses of the rare silver-sulfosalt vikingite on matrix, associated with some lustrous galena cleavages.
A very good sample of this rare species.
Ex Jaroslav Hyrsl.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vikingite

Formula: 
Ag5Pb8Bi13S30
Strunz: 
2.JB.40a
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland
Cartils Minerals

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