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Liveingite - Sold
- Lengenbach quarry
- Binn Valley
- Valais
- Switzerland
- 6.4 by 5.3 by 3.6 cm – Small cabinet specimen (under 10 cm)
Liveingite is a lead arsenic sulfide. Solly & Jackson (1901) named the mineral in honor of George D. Liveing (1827-1924), professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, England.
Liveingite forms a parallel growth crystal group, 13 by 11 mm, spanning a vug in dolomite rock. Also present in the matrix are tennantite, muscovite, and pyrite. This specimen carries a Naturhistoriches Museum Bern label, which indicates it was collected in 1974.