THE MINERAL NATIVE ANTIMONY


Antimony does not often form in its elemental state and is far more common in sulfides and sulfosalts such as stibnite, tetrahedrite, bournonite, boulangerite and jamesonite. It is also found in some oxides such as valentinite, stibiconite and senarmontite Due to the abundance of these antimony bearing ores and the rarity of native antimony, it is never an important ore of itself.

Native antimony is nearly indistinguishable from native arsenic. However the garlic odor which is sometimes found on arsenic specimens is not a characteristic of antimony and antimony does not tarnish as quickly or as severely as arsenic.

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