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Glaucodot

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Håkansboda, Lindesberg, Örebro County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2.2 × 1.1 cm
Description

Brilliant platina-white crystals of glaucodot, implanted in a matrix of crystalline magnetic pyrrhotite, with pyrite. The crystals show nice re-entrant angles because they are twinned. From Håkansboda (Sweden), a super classic European locality, mined intensively until the end of the XIX Century.

Acquired in 1999, it is from the collection of Francis Hubert #15741.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Glaucodot

Formula: 
(Co0.50Fe0.50)AsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.10c
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Huasco, Huasco Province, Atacama Region, Chile

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