Info: Antimonate crystals are usually in needle form. Antimonate have steel grey colour, its opaque and it have strong metalic shine. Commonly found are agregates of antimonate of various forms, or grain and massive masses. Antimonate is soft, heavy and can be cutted easly.
Found: Beautifull crystals with length of over 50 cm. were found on island Shikoku (Japan). Stunning crystals were found also in Kapnik (Romania), Toscany (Italy), California (USA). In Czech Republic antimonate is found in Příbramsko and Sedlčansko.
Used for: Mainly as ore for extraction of antimony.
| Crystal structure |
| Diamond |
| Hardness |
| 2 |
| Colour |
| Lead grey |
| Shine |
| Metalic |
