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Acanthite Psm Polybasite

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Acanthite Psm Polybasite

Ex. PLIESTER and ex. OTTER
Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
El Cubo Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Description

This is an unusual, rich and excellent pseudomorphosis of Acanthite (analyzed by Joy Desor), which has displaced Polybasite. Accompanied by white tabular Baryte crystals and minor orange Sphalerite (also analyzed).

Exceptionally high-class specimen of significant specimen size and pseudomorphose crystals up to 1.2 centimeters in length. Rarely seen in this quality and from a mine from which only a few high-quality specimens can be found.

Former collection Kuno Pliester and Lothar Otter before 1980.

Comes with a collection label as shown.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
lead grey
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Polybasite

Formula: 
[(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Strunz: 
2.GB.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Streak: 
black
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Postage Area Price
Germany (insured parcel) < 3 kg: 6 $
$6
Germany (insured parcel) > 3 kg - 10 kg: 9.50 $
$9.50
Worldwide, tracked < 1 kg: 9.50 $
$9.50
Worldwide, tracked > 1 kg up to 2 kg: 28 $
$28
European Union, tracked > 1 kg up to 2 kg: 18 $
$18

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