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Roselite

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Roselite

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Description
Locality: 
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 8 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Very lustrous magenta-red crystals of roselite perched on transparent dolomite rhombohedrons and partially covered by red spheres of goethite. The crystals are also present at the rear side too where they are accompanied by botryoidal and green spheres of cobaltaustinite.

Collected in 09/2009.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Roselite

Formula: 
Ca2(Co2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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