Mineralpedia Details for Billingsleyite
Billingsleyite
- Formula
- Ag7AsS6
- Crystal System
- Orthorhombic
- Cleavage
- Indistinct, None, None
- Luster
- Metallic
- Color
- lead gray
- Class
- Orthorhombic - Disphenoidal
- Hardness
- 2.5
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Billingsleyite from Clara mine, Wolfach, Schwarzwald, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
There are at least three individual crystals on this specimen. All are in the range of 0.1 to 0.2mm in size. Each are blocky and dull black and are associated with colorless Fluorite. Billingsleyite is a fairly rare mineral and is found at only 12 localities acrsos the world.
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