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Nickeltsumcorite & Annabergite

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Nickeltsumcorite & Annabergite

IMA 2013-117
New Mineral type

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Description
Locality: 
Km-3 Mine, Lavrion District, Attiki Prefecture, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1.2 × 0.8 cm
Description

Nickeltsumcorite is a very rare new mineral species, this is the nickel analogue of tsumcorite and cobalttsumcorite. It forms yellow microcrystalline coatings on calcite/dolomite crystals, with dark grey dendritic manganese oxides. There are some nice annabergite crystal groups on the specimen as well. Rich piece from the Type Locality

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nickeltsumcorite

Formula: 
Pb(Ni,Fe3+)2(AsO4)2·(H2O,OH)2
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Km-3 Mine, Lavrion (Laurion; Laurium), Lavrion District Mines, Lavrion District (Laurion; Laurium), Attikí Prefecture (Attica; Attika), Greece

Annabergite

Formula: 
Ni3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Teichgräber Flacher vein, Teichgräber deep adit, Kippenhain Mine (Kippenhayn Mine), Schreckenberg, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Annaberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Loranth Minerals

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