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Erythrite On Cobaltite

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Erythrite On Cobaltite

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Description
Locality: 
Carcoar Mine, Bathurst County, New South Wales, Australia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.6 × 8.9 × 6.2 cm
Weight: 
602.00gr
Description

From a very uncommon locality is this heavy and big example of lustrous acicular crystals of erythrite with silky lustre and intense magenta colour, on a heavy crystallized matrix of cobaltite.

Exchanged in 1985, it is an Ex Eudore Toussaint specimen, #407.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Erythrite

Formula: 
Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Daniel Mine (St. Daniel Mine), Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Cobaltite

Formula: 
CoAsS
Strunz: 
2.EB.25
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Pyramidal
Hardness: 
5.5

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