Andorite
Mineral AgPbSb3S6
Take care.
- Contains lead: Wash your hands after handling it, keep it away from children, and don't make dust.
- Toxic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't lick or taste it, and don't make dust.
About it
Steel grey striated prisms and thick tablets, a silver ore. Fine crystals come from the San José mine at Oruro, Bolivia, and Baia Sprie, Romania.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Sulfosalt
- Formula
- AgPbSb3S6
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 3–3.5
- Specific gravity
- 5.3–5.4
- Streak
- black
- Lustre
- metallic
- Crystal system
- Orthorhombic
- Colours
- dark steel grey
- Transparency
- opaque
- Cleavage and fracture
- none; conchoidal fracture
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.