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Bonaccordite & Trevorite

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Bonaccordite & Trevorite

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Description
Locality: 
Scotia Talc Mine, Bon Accord, Barberton, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.7 × 0.4 × 0.2 cm
Description

Outstanding brown crystal aggregates of the extremely rare nickel mineral bonaccordite from the type and only known locality worldwide and associated to green trevorite.

Analyzed specimen by SEM-EDS see copy attached.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Bonaccordite

Formula: 
Ni2Fe3+(BO3)O2
Strunz: 
6.AB.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Scotia Talc mine, Bon Accord, Barberton, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

Trevorite

Formula: 
Ni2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Hardness: 
5.0
Type Locality: 
Bon Accord Ni Deposit, Bon Accord, Barberton, Ehlanzeni District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

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