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Moorhouseite & Cobaltkoritnigite

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Moorhouseite & Cobaltkoritnigite

P-XRD confirmed, new find! no 19-11-08-m1

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Description
Locality: 
Munker Mine, Siegen, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.6 × 2.3 cm
Description

SEM-EDS & P-XRD confirmed pale pink moorhouseite from the almost unknown Munker mine, Siegen, Germany with intense pink cobaltkoritnigite on skutterudite impregnated quartz. 

Analysis attached. New find!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Moorhouseite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Mn)SO4·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Walton Barite Mine (Magnet Cove Barium Corp. Mine), Walton, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

Cobaltkoritnigite

Formula: 
(Co,Zn)(HAsO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.20
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany