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CARROLLITE
CARROLLITE
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A top rare Carrollite metal specimen to add to your collection. Stunning bright crystal surfaces with sharp edges. Great size on a Calcite matrix with associated mineral like golden and rainbow Chalcopyrite and others. A well formed large, Octahedral Carrollite crystal is perched prominently on the matrix of this specimen. Check out the video of this specimen on this page.
Dimensions:
9.9cm x 6.1cm x 4.3cm, 308g.
Crystal 14.5mm x 16mm.
Location:
D.R. Congo, Africa.
Carrollite was discovered in Carroll County, Maryland, and recognized as a mineral species in 1852. It is named for Carroll County. Carrollite is collected for its mineralogical rarity, rarity of sizeable crystals, unusual chemical composition as one of the relatively few cobalt-bearing minerals, high degree of cubic-crystal development, and associations in composite specimens with such minerals as quartz and calcite.
CARROLLITE
copper cobalt sulfide
CuCo2S4.
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Copper Cobalt Sulfide
CuCo2S4.01
A top rare Carrollite metal specimen to add to your collection. Stunning bright crystal surfaces with sharp edges. Great size on a Calcite matrix with associated mineral like golden and rainbow Chalcopyrite and others. A well formed large, Octahedral Carrollite crystal is perched prominently on the matrix. Check out the video of this specimen on this page.
Dimensions:
9.9cm x 6.1cm x 4.3cm, 308g.
Crystal 14.5mm x 16mm.
Location:
D.R. Congo, Africa.
Carrollite was discovered in Carroll County, Maryland, and recognized as a mineral species in 1852. Carrollite is collected for its mineralogical rarity, rarity of sizeable crystals, unusual chemical composition (relatively few cobalt-bearing minerals). Also it’s high degree of cubic-crystal development, and associations in composite specimens with such minerals as quartz and calcite.
Properties
Colour: Light to dark gray, rarely tarnishes to copper red or violet gray
Crystal habit: Octahedral and cubic crystals, also massive, granular or compact
Cleavage: Imperfect on {001}
Fracture: Conchoidal, subconchoidal or uneven
Tenacity: Very brittle
Mohs scale hardness: 4.5 to 5.5
Luster: Metallic, mirror-like
Streak: Grey black
Diaphaneity: Opaque. R is 43% to 45% for lambda = 560 nm
Specific gravity: 4.5 to 4.8 measured, 4.83 calculated
Occuranc: hydrothermal vein deposits.
Associated with tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, digenite, djurleite, chalcocite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, sphalerite. Also millerite, gersdorffite, ullmannite, cobaltoan calcite, and with linnaeite group members linnaeite, siegenite, and polydymite.
Carrollite is found worldwide; reported in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China and the Czech Republic. Also the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, Japan, Morocco, Namibia, North Korea, Norway. And then some Oman, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, US and Zambia.
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HEALING PROPERTIES
Carrollite provides protection against psychic attacks. It reinforces the concepts that love transcends fear and that we create our own realities. Also enhances and clarifies spiritual communication. Because of its rarity, carrollite has no technological uses – yet.
| Weight | 350 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 12 × 10 × 8 cm |
| color | Silver |
CARROLLITE
copper cobalt sulfide
CuCo2S4.
A top rare Carrollite metal specimen to add to your collection. Stunning bright crystal surfaces with sharp edges. Great size on a Calcite matrix with associated mineral like golden and rainbow Chalcopyrite and others. A well formed large, Octahedral Carrollite crystal is perched prominently on the matrix of this specimen.
Dimensions:
9.9cm x 6.1cm x 4.3cm, 308g.
Crystal 14.5mm x 16mm.
Location:
D.R. Congo, Africa.
Carrollite was discovered in Carroll County, Maryland, and recognized as a mineral species in 1852. It is named for Carroll County. Carrollite is collected for its mineralogical rarity, rarity of sizeable crystals, unusual chemical composition as one of the relatively few cobalt-bearing minerals, high degree of cubic-crystal development, and associations in composite specimens with such minerals as quartz and calcite.
Properties
Colour: Light to dark gray, rarely tarnishes to copper red or violet gray
Crystal habit: Octahedral and cubic crystals, also massive, granular or compact
Cleavage: Imperfect on {001}
Fracture: Conchoidal, subconchoidal or uneven
Tenacity: Very brittle
Mohs scale hardness: 4.5 to 5.5
Luster: Metallic, mirror-like
Streak: Grey black
Diaphaneity: Opaque. R is 43% to 45% for lambda = 560 nm
Specific gravity: 4.5 to 4.8 measured, 4.83 calculated
Occuranc: hydrothermal vein deposits.
Associated with tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, digenite, djurleite, chalcocite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, sphalerite, millerite, gersdorffite, ullmannite, cobaltoan calcite, and with linnaeite group members linnaeite, siegenite, and polydymite.
Carrollite is found worldwide; reported in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, Japan, Morocco, Namibia, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, US and Zambia.
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