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Erythrite & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4.3 × 3.8 cm
Description

Magenta sprays and tufted hairs of erythrite richly scattered over a matrix with several isolated pyrites in one side.

There is another unidentified species. Come with several labels from Australia dated Feb. 1976, Germany dated Sept. 1976 from Gebr. Henn from Idar-Oberstein, USA from Dan Weinrich and Spain.

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

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
schani

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