AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Mexico > Stephanite with Calcite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 82364 |
Mineral: | Stephanite with Calcite |
Locality: | Mina El Solar, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico |
Description: | Lustrous dark-metallic stephanite crystals to 8 mm with lustrous colorless scalenohedral calcite crystals to 4 mm. The stephanite crystals are tabular pseudo-hexagonal form with {111} edge faces. Stephanite is a rare silver antimony sulfosalt. Ex. Miller collection T2916; ex. Betts #64822 |
Overall Size: | 20x17x16 mm |
Crystals: | 1-8 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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