Description: The Freiberg mining academy also sold individual collections for study purpose. The specimens in these collections came with the standard label with name and locality on and another label that gave information about hardness, weight and crystal system. The shown labels are from the 1930s and when you look at the cacoxenite labels in the middle the crystal system of cacoxenite is not known yet and the hardness is "soft"...

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