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β-Roselite & Cobaltoan Calcite

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β-Roselite & Cobaltoan Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 8.2 × 5.9 cm
Weight: 
344.00gr
Description

Wonderful specimen from Morocco with an aesthetic association of lot of rare beta-roselite crystals reunited in rounded aggregates of intense color associated with cobaltoan calcite crystals of a beautiful violet-pink color

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

β-Roselite

Formula: 
Ca2(Co2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
Red, pale
Type Locality: 
Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Cobaltoan Calcite

Variety Of: 

Calcite

Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Hardness: 
3.0
Formula: 
(Ca,Co)CO3
Hardness: 
0.0

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