Dyscrasite
Mineral Ag3Sb
Take care.
- Toxic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't lick or taste it, and don't make dust.
About it
Silver-white, very heavy, slightly sectile silver antimonide, often in six-sided-looking twinned crystals. Classic from Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz, Germany.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Antimonide
- Formula
- Ag3Sb
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 3.5–4
- Specific gravity
- 9.7–9.8
- Streak
- silver white
- Lustre
- metallic
- Crystal system
- Orthorhombic
- Colours
- silver white, greyish to yellowish tarnish
- Transparency
- opaque
- Cleavage and fracture
- distinct; uneven fracture, sectile
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.