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Maucherite & Nickeline

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Maucherite & Nickeline

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Description
Locality: 
Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5.4 × 3 cm
Description

A heavy, impressive and excellent sample of maucherite, an uncommon nickel-arsenide, from the Type Locality.
The specimen has a very rich coverage of reddish-grey masses of maucherite associated with small crystals and masss of light copper-red nickeline and some white barite.
Collected in the 1950's at the Max-Lademann Shaft (Clotilde Shaft) in Eisleben.
Great piece.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Maucherite

Formula: 
Ni11As8
Strunz: 
2.AB.15
Hardness: 
5.0
Streak: 
dark grey
Type Locality: 
Eisleben, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Nickeline

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

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