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Anorthoroselite Roselite & Cobaltaustinite

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Anorthoroselite Roselite & Cobaltaustinite

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Description
Locality: 
Aghbar Mine, Aghbar, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 5.4 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
125.00gr
Description

Bright orange coloured anorthoroselite (ex β-roselite) crystals, as isolated crystals or intergrown with super lustrous magenta-red crystals of roselite of good size (up to 5 mm). They are completely lining two cavities of a pink dolomite matrix, that also show dark spheroidal aggregates of cobaltaustinite. Some analyzed specimens from this locality have shown that these dark spheroidal aggregates are cuprian cobaltaustinite.

Self-collected in 09/2009.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Roselite

Formula: 
Ca2(Co2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.10
Hardness: 
3.5
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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