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Skutterudite

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Skutterudite

Nérée Boubée / Comptoir Central d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
St Andreasberg District, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

A fine german classic showing skutterudite crystals up to 7 mm in calcite matrix. Comes with a handwritten mid 19th century label of famous Nérée Boubée, Paris (1806-1862).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Skutterudite

Formula: 
CoAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Skuterud Mines (Skutterud Mines; Modum Cobalt Mines), Modum, Buskerud, Norway