A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Pyrargyrite from Freiberg, Saxony, Germany |
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| Description | Pyrargyrite, Ag3SbS3 (silver antimony sulfide), is isostructural with proustite, a silver arsenic sulfide. Isostructural means that the two minerals have the same structure, but a different chemistry. Pyrargyrite is the more common of the two minerals and is usually found in the same ore veins with proustite, silver and other silver sulfides. |
| Location | Germany ▹ Saxony. Near Freiberg. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-18. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #425. |
| Key words | pyargyrite, Germany |
| Tech details | 675 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1267 |
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