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Kaatialaite & Moorhouseite

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Kaatialaite & Moorhouseite

New find! EDS & XRD confirmed specimen 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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 2.5 × 2.6 cm
Description

SEM-EDS confirmed kaatialaaite associated with XRD & EDS confirmed moorhouseite and cobaltkoritnigite. A colourful assemblage from an almost unknown mine. 

Analysis is attached. Specimen has the ID no 19-11-08-m1. 

First two analysis images are from kaatialaite, third is the XRD of moorhouseite. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kaatialaite

Formula: 
Fe(H2AsO4)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kaatiala pegmatite, Kuortane, Western and Inner Finland Region, Finland

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
Analysis
Analysis Report - only: Kaatialaite & Moorhouseite
Analysis Report - only: Kaatialaite & Moorhouseite
Analysis Report - only: Kaatialaite & Moorhouseite