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β-Roselite & Roselite

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β-Roselite & Roselite

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Description
Locality: 
Ambed #3 Mine, Ambed, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 4 × 1.8 cm
Description

Matrix with one face showing a nice coverage of dark orange beta-roselite crystals in association with transparent magenta coloured roselite crystals. A number of the roselite crystals exhibit epitaxial beta-roselite crystal over-growths. Some bruising around the edge of the specimen but still a very good example of this colourful and unusual mineral association.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

β-Roselite

Formula: 
Ca2(Co2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
Red, pale
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Roselite

Formula: 
Ca2(Co2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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