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Kolbeckite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Schlarbaum Quarry, Klausen, Südoststeiermark, Styria, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Yellow rounded aggregates of the very rare mineral kolbeckite on a contrasting matrix. 

Kolbeckite is an scandium mineral. Scandium is an extremely rare element in minerals, since only 21 mineral species of almost 5700 minerals known are scandium minerals, so it is a real rarity.

In addition, the vast majority of kolbeckites are green globules, except the ones from this Austrian locality, that are yellow.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Kolbeckite

Formula: 
ScPO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 5.0
Type Locality: 
Sadisdorf, Schmiedeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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