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Safflorite

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Safflorite

Ex Oliver Mecker (Germany)
Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 371, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.5 × 4 cm
Weight: 
170.00gr
Description

Very good specimen of crystallized safflorite on massive native arsenic.

Beautiful and hard to get nowadays.

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