21. Besides stibnite , which was used for eye liner red, antimony is one of the oldest minerals used in cosmetics. 22. Sarabauite can be found there in mineral veins through altered limestone containing quartz, wollastonite, calcite, stibnite and senarmonite. 23. Prized high-quality stibnite crystals produced at the mine can be found in museums and private collections around the world. 24. Alchemists had shown that when stibnite , an antimony sulfide ore, was heated with scrap iron, metallic antimony was produced. 25. Starkey used stibnite as a precursor to philosophical mercury, which was itself a hypothetical precursor to the Philosopher's stone. 26. The largest documented single crystals of stibnite measured ~ 60?? cm and originated from different locations including Japan, France and Germany. 27. The "'Stibnite Mining District "'is one of the most historic mining districts in all of Idaho. 28. During this wartime period Stibnite produced 40 percent of the nation's domestic supply of tungsten and 90 percent of its antimony 29. The typefounder would typically introduce powdered stibnite and horseshoe nails into his crucible to melt lead, tin and antimony into type metal. 30. The mixture of stibnite and nails was heated red hot in an open-air furnace, until all is molten and finished.
