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Nickeline Arsenolite & Annabergite

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Nickeline Arsenolite & Annabergite

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Description
Locality: 
Gönnern Diabase Quarry, Frechenhausen, Angelburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.6 × 2.2 cm
Description

Very rare sample of nickeline from Hesse, polished around one corner. On the back some traces of arsenolite and green annabergite.

The specimen comes with a label stating the locality is Bottenhorn, Hesse - but my research shows the only possible locality in the region would be Frechenhausen. However I might be wrong ...

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nickeline

Formula: 
NiAs
Strunz: 
2.CC.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5

Arsenolite

Formula: 
As2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.50
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Annabergite

Formula: 
Ni3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.40
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Teichgräber Flacher vein, Teichgräber deep adit, Kippenhain Mine (Kippenhayn Mine), Schreckenberg, Frohnau, Annaberg-Buchholz, Annaberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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