Skutterudite

 

Origin: Bou Azzer, Anti-Atlas Mts, Morocco

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Skutterudite with safflorite after silver

Origin: Mine 186 Alberoda, Halde, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 8 x 7 x 6 cm

 

  

Variety smaltite with silver

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4 cm

 

  

Origin: Bou Azzer, Morocco

Sample size: 2.5 x 2.5 x 4 cm

 

  

Brilliant silver metallic crystals of "cloanthite", or "nickel rich skutterudite"

Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm

 

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Origin: Gowganda, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 5 x 6 x 4 cm with good crystals to 8 mm

 

  

 

  

Ex. Erling Collection

Origin: Aghbar, Bou Azzer, Morocco

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm (top), 6 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 4 x 5 x 5 cm

 

  

Origin: Hudson Bay Mine, Gowganda, Ontario, Canada

Ex. Erling collection

Sample size: 3.5 x 2 x 2.5 cm

 

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Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Bou Azzer, Atlas Mtns., Morocco

Sample size: 4.3 x 2.3 x 2 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  

Origin: N'chwaning, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Republic of South Africa

Ex. Keith Hayes collection

Sample size: 4.7 x 3.3 x 2 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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