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Erythrite & Smolyaninovite

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Erythrite & Smolyaninovite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 5.3 × 2 cm
Description

Hot pink sprays of erthyrite on a cobaltite rich matrix that is covered with heterogenite and yellowish smolyaninovite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Erythrite

Formula: 
Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Smolyaninovite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)3(Fe3+,Al)2(AsO4)4·11H2O
Strunz: 
8.CH.55
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
2.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Khovu-Aksy Ni-Co deposit, Tuva Republic, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia
Earthstones Australia

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