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Erythrite Mansfieldite & Smolyaninovite

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Erythrite Mansfieldite & Smolyaninovite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6 × 3.8 cm
Description

Matrix very richly covered with radiating felted masses of a purplish pink colour with orange brown smolianinovite.  There is also a thin crust of variable colour from cream to orange to  pink of possible mansfieldite crystals together with traces of cobaltite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Mansfieldite

Formula: 
AlAsO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hobart Butte, Black Butte District, Lane Co., Oregon, USA

Smolyaninovite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)3(Fe3+,Al)2(AsO4)4·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.55
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Khovu-Aksy Ni-Co deposit, Tuva Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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