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Nickeline Chloanthite & Skutterudite

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Nickeline Chloanthite & Skutterudite

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Description
Locality: 
Shaft 6, Oberschlema, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
8 × 10 × 6 cm
Weight: 
1 393.00gr
Description

A big chunk full of red metallic shiny nickeline with and grey metallic crystallized skutterudite intergrown with white calcite. A typical sample of the Bi-Co-Ni-association of Saxony. One of the rare not etched samples.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Nickeline

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

Chloanthite

Variety Of: 

Nickelskutterudite

Formula: 
NiAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Formula: 
NiAs2 - excess As up to As2.5
Hardness: 
0.0

Skutterudite

Formula: 
CoAs3-x
Strunz: 
2.EC.05
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Skuterud Mines (Skutterud Mines; Modum Cobalt Mines), Modum, Buskerud, Norway

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110