Arsenic

Small silvery gray areas of arsenic with dull gray stibarsen

Origin: Engineer mine, Atlin, BC, Canada

Sample size: 5 x 5 x 3 cm

 

  

Arsenic in white calcite

Origin: Criss Creek, near Savona, British Columbia, Canada

Sample size: 7 x 5 x 2.5 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Origin: Niederschlema, Saxony, Germany

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

Arsenic and proustite

Origin: Jachymov (Joachimsthal), Erzgebirge, Czech Republic

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

Prismatic and curved crystals of arsenic

Origin: Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Picture size: 5 mm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

Gray arsenic with white calcite crystals

Origin: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 7 cm

Owner: Thomas Witzke

 

Photo courtesy of: 

  

Origin: Kusa mine, near Bau, Sarawak, Borneo

Sample size: 4 x 1 x 1cm, stibnite crystals with native arsenic crystal aggregates to 1.5mm or "balls" as shown right

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

 

Arsenic pseudomorph after ? on quartz

Origin: Gabe Gottes, Markirch, Alsace, France

Sample size: 10.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm

 

  

Origin: Alberni Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Sample size: 6 x 4.3 x 3.4 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Large massive piece of native arsenic

Origin: Schacht 366, Schlema, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 3 x 6 x 13 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  

Origin: Akadani Mine, Chubu Region, Honshu Island, Japan

Sample size: 1.4 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Page 2     Page 3     Page 4     Page 5