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Arsenolite On Native Arsenic

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Arsenolite On Native Arsenic

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Description
Locality: 
Vater Abraham Mine, Lauta, Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
5 × 11 × 2 cm
Description

A huge sherd of dark grey to black native arsenic called by the old miners "Scherbenkobalt" partially overgrown with sharp lustrous translucent octahedrons of arsenolite and other Arsenic secondary minerals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Arsenolite

Formula: 
As2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.50
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Arsenic

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

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