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Rappoldite & Cobaltaustinite

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Rappoldite & Cobaltaustinite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm
Description

Excellent specimen richly decorated with brown rappoldite aggregates in association with green cobaltaustinite. The specimen is very richly decorated with rappoldite crystal aggregates. A combination of two very rare minerals.

Specimen from type locality for rappoldite. Rappoldite is only known from ONE locality worldwide. Very rare mineral.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Rappoldite

Formula: 
Pb(Co,Ni,Zn)2(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.20
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Rappold Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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

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