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Cobaltaustinite & Roselite

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Cobaltaustinite & Roselite

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Description
Locality: 
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4.1 × 2.9 cm
Description

You are bidding on a fine specimen with two rare species. Here you see small clusters of olive-green, glassy tapering crystals of Cobaltaustine richly set between a "sod" of deep purple Roselite. Both species are excellent developed, sharp edged and highly lustrous. A fine specimen from this well known Moroccan locale.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cobaltaustinite

Formula: 
CaCo(AsO4)(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BH.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Dome Rock Copper Mine, Boolcoomatta Reserve (Boolcoomata Station; Boolcoomatta), Olary Province, South Australia, Australia

Roselite

Formula: 
Ca2(Co2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.10
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Wendel Minerals

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