#Pyrargyrite

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Check Out This Awesome Pyrargyrite from Fresnillo, Mexico.

Photo copyright © Mineral Masterpiece

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[toyastales]

Geology Rocks: Pyrargyrite

https://toyastales.blogspot.com/2024/09/geology-rocks-pyrargyrite.html

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Pyrargyrite with calcite

Natural History Museum of Denmark, Mineral Hall

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Check Out This Awesome Pyrargyrite from Fresnillo, Mexico

[worldsandemanations]

Pyrargyrite from Santo Niño Vein, Fresnillo Mine, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico.

[jomindraws]

Next mineral group mapping: SULFIDES AND SULFOSALTS

P.S., I'm aware that a black canvas with dots on it isn't all too helpful, so I'll be including a copy of the topographic map on these as well so you can see where these are...

SULFIDES Pyrite - FeS2 - (Dark Gold) Chalcopyrite - CuFeS2 - (Darker Brown-Gold) Galena - PbS - (Light Steel Blue) Sphalerite - ZnS - (Light/Faded Green-Blue) Cinnabar - HgS - (Cinnabar-Burgundy Red) Molybdenite - MoS2 - (Light/Faded Lilac-Gray) HIGHER ARSENIDES Arsenopyrite - FeAsS - (Brownish-Orange) Skutterudite - (Ni,Co,Fe)As3 - (Cobalt Blue) SULFOSALTS Polybasite - (Ag,Cu)16Sb22S11 - (Grey-Camo Green) Stephanite - Ag5SbS4 - (Dark Amythest-Grey) Tetrahedrite - Cu12Sb4S13 - (Greenish-Lemon Yellow) Pyrargyrite - Ag3SbS3 - (Dark Crimson)

More mineral groups coming up ! I've got ~105 to map!

[monoceros-vulpes]

hello op whom i am in no way related to. i am very curious as to what led you to choose the ship name for lucy/vix. the name 'ruby blende' does not feel intuitive. would you possibly be able to enlighten me?

hello mysterious anon. i am very glad you have asked. i would be delighted to indulge your curiosity.

Ruby Blende or Garnete Blende are common names for several minerals that look like rubies or garnets. Pyrargyrite is a mineral that contains silver sulfantimonite. It is typically grey-silver with a metallic quality, however smaller crystals and shards are known to possess a deep red colour.

Because of this, the mineral is known by many names relating to it's appearance, such as ruby blende, garnete blende or ruby silver.

The characters in the ship Ruby Blende were previously acquainted only under aliases, Red and Silver. Due to their shared history, they've familiarised each other with their respective aliases more than their current names, Vix and Lucy.

While the two chose aliases that match their hair colour, they also feel that the name aligns with their personality or identity. For Vix, he feels that Red is a desirable colour and it can mean many things at once (read: kitsune.) For Lucy, she associates the colour silver with freedom and transparency or honesty— the moon is often described as 'silver' and polished silver objects easily show scratches and defects. It feels like a clean slate. Vix chose the alias 'Red' because he felt his identity was tied to it in a way. Lucy chose the alias 'Silver' because she recognised that 'Red' was not his real name and, under the pressure of time, decided to choose an alias that was also a colour. She thought it made her sound cool.

I'm sure you can draw the connections between Red and Silver and Ruby Silver.

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Item #9359415 — Cinnabar [faceted] 4.0 ct Qt. 1 ¥122,436

Item #7705845 — Wulfenite with Mimetite Specimen 3.3 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm Qt. 1 ¥305,912

Item #668221 — Pyrargyrite Specimen 3.0 x 2.0 x 1.4 cm Qt. 1 ¥380,593

[rhodos-crystal-hoard]

Pyrargyrite

[wigmund]

From Mindat.Org Photo Of The Day; October 7, 2018:

Pyrargyrite: Ag3SbS3

Locality: Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

“Red translucent pyrargyrite on altered silver sulphide. Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. Collection and Photo: Stephan Wolfsried.”

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Pyrargyrite Fresnillo Mine, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico

[earthstory]

Pyrargyrite

Named after the Greek for fire silver, this rare ore mineral is usually a deep grey to black in reflected light and a powerful ruby red in transmitted light, though specimens should be stored in the dark as they become more opaque with prolonged exposure to light. Popular with collectors, it is too soft (2.5 on Mohs scale) for gem use. A salt of silver, sulphur and antimony it is also somewhat toxic to the touch (I wouldn't lick it like I do some rocks), as is its cousin Proustite (aka ruby silver, see http://bit.ly/1VPbDb7) from whom it is tricky to distinguish (though a feature known as streak, the colour of the powder left behind when a sample is scraped across an unglazed tile will do so....pyrargyrite is purple, proustite crimson). Its lustre (amount of light reflected from the surface) is very bright, of a kind named adamantine by mineralogists after the exceptional lustre of adamas (diamond in Greek).

These minerals were first mentioned in 1546 by Georgius Agricola in the first ever geology and mining textbook, De re metallica. They form in the oxidised zone of hydrothermal (vein type) silver deposits where supergene enrichment by hot Earth fluids has removed components like silica from the rocks, leaving them enriched in metals. It precipitates as a late stage low temperature phase. These zones are often a determining factor in the viability of a proposed mine, as they allow a higher cashflow to be frontloaded into the operation. Famous localities include the Harz Mountains of Germany, Mexico, Chile and the western USA.

Unlike the more usual transparent ruby red specimens here we have a cluster of crystals with an iridescent patina caused by a thin coating of the mineral Chalcocite via the optical game labelled thin film iridescence (think petrol on a puddle). It was mined in Saxony in Germany and measures 2.3 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm

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Image credit: Rob Lavinsky/iRocks.com

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Pyrargyrite on Quartz with Calcite

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Pyrargyrite, Rose quartz + Ruby fusion

she’s a fireball of anger and revolution

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Pyrargyrite

Silver tunnel, Van Silver Property, Brandywine Creek, Vancouver Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada