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Moorhouseite Cobaltkoritnigite & Kaatialaite

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Moorhouseite Cobaltkoritnigite & Kaatialaite

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Description
Locality: 
Munker Mine, Siegen, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Description

Peach pink crystal aggregates of the very rare mineral moorhouseite (analyzed, see copy enclosed) associated to deep pink cobaltkoritnigite and very minoritary white kaatialaite from a German locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Moorhouseite

Formula: 
(Co,Ni,Mn)SO4·6H2O
Strunz: 
7.CB.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Walton Barite Mine (Magnet Cove Barium Corp. Mine), Walton, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada

Cobaltkoritnigite

Formula: 
(Co,Zn)(HAsO4)·H2O
Strunz: 
8.CB.20
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Kaatialaite

Formula: 
Fe(H2AsO4)3·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Kaatiala pegmatite, Kuortane, Western and Inner Finland Region, Finland

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