Getchellite
Mineral AsSbS3
Take care.
- Contains arsenic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't make dust, and never heat it.
- Toxic: Wash your hands after handling it, don't lick or taste it, and don't make dust.
About it
Dark red, soft arsenic-antimony sulfide with a pearly cleavage, often with realgar and orpiment. Named for the Getchell mine in Nevada, where it was first found.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Sulfide
- Formula
- AsSbS3
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 1.5–2
- Specific gravity
- 3.9–4
- Streak
- orange-red
- Lustre
- resinous, pearly
- Crystal system
- Monoclinic
- Colours
- dark carmine red, purplish red
- Transparency
- transparent, translucent
- Cleavage and fracture
- perfect in one direction, flexible plates
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.