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Erythrite

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Erythrite

Ted Bartels collection
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Description
Locality: 
Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 4.5 × 3.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small miniature specimen with some very nice sprays and groups of erythrite crystals on a fracture surface. Erythrite is quite rare at Sterling Hill and even rarer showing well-developed crystals. Ted Bartels collection from Ewald Gerstmann. 

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Erythrite

Formula: 
Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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