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Cobaltite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Håkansboda, Lindesberg, Örebro County, Sweden
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.7 × 1.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

This is thumbnail of brilliant, silver-white striated cubic crystal of cobaltite from Hakansboda (Zweden). The crystals are in a magnetic, massive microcrystalline matrix, probably pyrrhotite. Hakansboda is classic European locality, mined until the end of the XIX Century. Acquired in 1971, it is from the Gerard Vogel collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltite

Formula: 
CoAsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Hardness: 
5.5

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