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Safflorite & Skutterudite

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Safflorite & Skutterudite

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Description
Locality: 
Nipissing 404 Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Description

Sharp, shiny crystals of skutterudite to 4.0 mm are partly overgrown by micro crystals of safflorite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Safflorite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Fe)As2
Strunz: 
2.EB.15a
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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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