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Roselite With Heterogenite

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Roselite With Heterogenite

Former collection Christian Mavris
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Description
Locality: 
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Weight: 
40.00gr
Description

Small miniature of creamy carbonate rock with two drusies fully lined with pink/lilliac roselite crystals of very good quality. The transparency of roselite is very good, to the point of gemminess, and most crystals are sharp, lustrous, and in great conditions. Associated, a couple of dark botryoids of presumibly heterogenite (not analysed).

Elegant, contrastful and quite rich. Purchased at the Munich mineral show in 2006, in my collection ever since

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

Heterogenite

Formula: 
CoO(OH)
Strunz: 
4.FE.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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