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Argentobaumhauerite With Hutchinsonite

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Argentobaumhauerite With Hutchinsonite

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Description
Locality: 
Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 3.8 × 2.7 cm
Weight: 
60.00gr
Description

Block of sulphides abundantly covered by well crystallized yellow-orange orpiment, and dark prismatic and very lustrous hutchinsonite crystals. The interstitial space between these crystals is richly filled by a thick carpet with thousands of acicular brownish-red crystals of extremely rare argentobaumhauerite. Only known from two places in the world this is a good argentobaumhauerite specimen.

Ex Ludwig Cserhalmi #148. Ex Dr. Elisabeth Kirchner (1935-2023) collection, who was a Professor at the Salzburg University (Austria).

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Argentobaumhauerite

Formula: 
Pb11Ag(As,Sb)18S36
Strunz: 
2/E.24-15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3
Colour: 
Steel grey
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Wallis, Switzerland

Hutchinsonite

Formula: 
TlPbAs5S9
Strunz: 
2.HD.45
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld (Imfeld; Im Feld; Feld), Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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