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Chemical Composition: AsS
Group: -
System: Monoclinic
Family: Sulphate
Hardness: 1.5 - 2
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- Rarely in small, stubby, prismatic crystals
- Fairly heavy, fragile
- Perfect cleavage
- Semi-transparent
- Adamantine luster
- Orange-yellow streak
- Dissolves in aqua regia
- Found in: Corsica, France, Italy, Romania, Switzerland, USA
- Uses: manufacture of fireworks and paint
- Specific gravity: 3.5 - 3.6
- Rare
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