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Annabergite

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Description
Locality: 
Atrevida Mine, Vimbodí i Poblet, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.7 × 2 cm
Description

Very unusual mineral since it is pink cobaltoan annabergite (!!), associated to tabular barite from a typical locality in Catalonia. Annabergite with a color different from the green one are very rare worldwide.

Analyzed specimen, see copy attached.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Annabergite

Formula: 
Ni3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Teichgräber Flacher vein, Teichgräber deep adit, Kippenhain Mine (Kippenhayn Mine), Schreckenberg, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Annaberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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