Antimony
Mineral Sb
Also called Native antimony
Take care.
- Toxic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't lick or taste it, and don't make dust.
About it
Tin-white, brittle masses with a bright cleavage, often with stibnite and white oxide crusts. Known from Sala, Sweden, Sarawak on Borneo, and the Lac Nicolet mine in Quebec.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Native element, arsenic group
- Formula
- Sb
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 3–3.5
- Specific gravity
- 6.6–6.7
- Streak
- tin white to grey
- Lustre
- metallic
- Crystal system
- Trigonal
- Colours
- tin white, light grey
- Transparency
- opaque
- Cleavage and fracture
- perfect basal; uneven fracture, brittle
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.