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Schneebergite

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Description
Locality: 
Roter Berg, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm
Description

A very good example of the rare bismuth-cobalt-nickel-arsenate schneebergite with a very rich coverage of tiny beige to light brown lath-like and acicular crystals and crusts of schneebergite on a typical matrix of quartz casts of decomposed cobalt and nickel arsenides.
A rare species from the Type Locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Schneebergite

Formula: 
(Bi3+,Ca)(Co,Ni,Fe3+)2(AsO4)2(OH,H2O)2
Strunz: 
8.CG.15
Hardness: 
4.0 - 4.5
Type Locality: 
Roter Berg District, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Cartils Minerals

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