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Rammelsbergite Skutterudite & Nickeline

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Rammelsbergite Skutterudite & Nickeline

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Description
Locality: 
Bad Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 5.5 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
503.00gr
Description

Very heavy mix of massive, dark gray rammelsbergite, glossy, pale -copper-colored nickeline and gray skutterudite crystals (probably nickelskutterudite/chloanthite) on a baryte-quartz matrix. The green mineral species is not yet identified.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rammelsbergite

Formula: 
NiAs2
Strunz: 
2.EB.15a
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Type Locality: 
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

Nickeline

Formula: 
NiAs
Strunz: 
2.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5

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