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Skutterudite

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Skutterudite

Former collection Burger (Switzerland), Kranz Bonn (Germany)
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Description
Locality: 
Richelsdorf District, Wildeck, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1 × 1 × 1 cm
Description

Perfect cubic skutterudite cube nicely perched in mixed sulfide vein, mostly skutterudite bearing. The surface of most of the vein is coated with pink/purple erythrite, which mostly forms a thin crust. Skutterudite is rather dull, but the crystal form is very well visible, especially for the main crystal.
Skutterudite from Richelsdorf is quite a sought after oldtimer. This specimen comes from the former collection Burger (Switzerland), pre-WWII and relabelled in modern times.

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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

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