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Cobaltaustinite & Cobaltlotharmeyerite

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Cobaltaustinite & Cobaltlotharmeyerite

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Description
Locality: 
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.6 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some rich groups of dark green cobaltaustinite crystals with dark red tabular cobaltlotharmeyerite and sparse pink roselite-beta crystals. From the best find of cobaltaustinite!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltaustinite

Formula: 
CaCo(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station; Boolcoomatta), Olary Province, South Australia, Australia

Cobaltlotharmeyerite

Formula: 
Ca(Co,Fe3+,Ni)2(AsO4)2·2(H2O,OH)
Strunz: 
8.CG.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Roter Berg District, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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