page_title: Getchellite
hierarchical_section_title: Getchellite
caption_attribution_description: English: Getchellite, Orpiment Locality: Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA (Locality at mindat.org) A very rich specimen of lustrous, platy, red getchellite with yellow-orange orpiment in matrix from the Type Locality, the Getchell Mine of Nevada. Ex Ed Ruggiero Collection. Ed, formerly from Dallas, collected from the 1960s until 1987. His collection represents a wonderful time-slice of minerals available during that period. Ed purchased this piece in October, 1975. For the species, this is pretty rich material! 6.1 x 5.0 x 3.7 cm Deutsch: Getchellit, Auripigment Fundort: Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi District, Humboldt County, Nevada, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
context_page_description: Getchellite is a rare sulfide of arsenic and antimony, AsSbS₃, that was discovered by B. G. Weissberg of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1963, and approved as a new species by the International Mineralogical Association in 1965. Many metal sulfides are grey to black, but a few are brightly colored. Orpiment is yellow to brownish gold, cinnabar is deep red and getchellite is a bright orange red.
context_section_description: Getchellite is a rare sulfide of arsenic and antimony, AsSbS₃, that was discovered by B. G. Weissberg of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1963, and approved as a new species by the International Mineralogical Association in 1965. Many metal sulfides are grey to black, but a few are brightly colored.  Orpiment is yellow to brownish gold, cinnabar is deep red and getchellite is a bright orange red.
caption: Red Getchellite and yellow Orpiment from the Getchell Mine, the type locality.
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