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Safflorite Skutterudite & Native Bismuth

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Safflorite Skutterudite & Native Bismuth

ex collection Dr. Klagholz, ex Fettel
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Description
Locality: 
Mackenheim Quarry, Abtsteinach, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 3.8 cm
Description

A great safflorite specimen, full of highly lustrous, silvery gray crystals. Much better in nature. Small skutterudite and native bismuth crystals in veins in the matrix (not pictured). Supposedly found by M. Fettel, discoverer of fettelite. Comes with the original box and label from Dr. Klagholz.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Safflorite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Fe)As2
Strunz: 
2.EB.15a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Skutterudite

Formula: 
CoAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Skuterud Mines (Skutterud Mines; Modum Cobalt Mines), Modum, Buskerud, Norway

Bismuth

Formula: 
Bi
Strunz: 
1.CA.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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