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Improving Mindat.orgClinosafflorite?

15th Jul 2012 20:44 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

http://www.mindat.org/photo-190769.html looks like cobaltite to me, has this been confirmed?

16th Jul 2012 13:45 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

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25th Nov 2012 14:16 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

If there is no response by now the photo should be removed pending a response. Clinosafflorite is monoclinic and there is no way this crystal is monoclinic!

25th Nov 2012 20:04 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Changed to cobaltite.

25th Nov 2012 22:52 UTCEmil Box

Or Thiospinel Group? : Carrolite, Cobaltite, Linnaeite, Siegenite

29th Nov 2012 21:18 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

From the same mine, there is a similar cattierite photo: http://www.mindat.org/photo-172601.html

-> made the "cobaltite" user-only and added a ref. to this discussion

13th Aug 2016 23:15 UTCJesse Crawford

Thanks, sorry for the delay in responding. I just discovered this while browsing through my photos. I don't know why I never got the notification... maybe I was distracted. Obviously, I dropped the ball on this one. It's not the first time. I guess it's lucky I don't do this professionally :-). Thanks Uwe, and everyone who took the trouble to point me in the right direction. According to the label (from David Shannon) this specimen has clinosafflorite and cattierite in addition to cobaltite. The challenge for me is to find them.

14th Aug 2016 01:30 UTCFrank Keutsch Expert

the cattierite and clinosafflorite from there have been very problematic for me. The pieces one can buy have clinosafflorite, cobaltite and cattierite (on the label). The description (Canadian Mineralogist 21 129pp ) mentions clinosafflorite together with cobaltite and that cattierite occurs in a different assemblage and probably mainly as rims. I gave up on the pieces I had purchased as I could not find cattierite, probably as they were the wrong (cobaltite bearing) assemblage or I just had no luck...

It would be great if you could clearly document the cattierite as I am still quite interested in this topic.

Frank

14th Aug 2016 02:56 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

Hello Frank,

So were you able to find clinosafflorite? If so what does it look like?