Skutterudite Gallery

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Skutterudite (Var: Smaltite) : (Co,Fe,Ni)As₂, Silver : Ag
	Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada 5.7 x 5.5 x 1.1 cm. Smaltite is the arsenic-deficient variety of skutterudite and is quite uncommon worldwide and is rare in display-quality specimens. This is a very rich, sculptural and aesthetic specimen of bubbly/botryoidal, very sparkly, silvery-bright smaltite microcrystals on a very thin sheet of native leaf silver. Exceptionally rich ore ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 266164 View Count: 8
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3, Calcite : CaCO₃
	Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada A 3/4 inch crystal face if visible on this 2x2 1/2 inch specimen of calcite and massive skutterudite from the Cobalt district. In the Charles Creekmur collection.
© Charles Creekmur	Photo ID: 18977 View Count: 415
Skutterudite (Var: Smaltite) : (Co,Fe,Ni)As₂
	Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada Sample massive with 4,5x2,5x2cm - December of 1992
© Martins da Pedra	Photo ID: 74578 View Count: 303
Skutterudite (Var: Smaltite) : (Co,Fe,Ni)As₂
	Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada A 3.5 by 3.0 cms silver mass with a thin vein of native Silver and Acanthite. JSS specimen and photograph.
© JSS	Photo ID: 106762 View Count: 208
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3, Silver : Ag
	Cobalt, Coleman Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada 7.9 x 5.1 x 3.4 cm. This is a beautiful specimen with arborescent, complex leaves of silver now altered to the nickel species skutterudite. Presumably an old specimen.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 263144 View Count: 11
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3, Nickeline : NiAs
	Nipissing 404 Mine, Cobalt, Coleman Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada Size: H:8.5cm x W:6cm x D:2.5cm Largest Crystal: 0.1cm Description Weighing approximately 447 grams, this is a specimen of botryoidal Ni-Co arsenides covered with brownish anhedral nickeline, numerous shiny cubo-octahedrons of skutterudite to 0.1cm, many of which show hopper growth. Also on the surface of the botryoids are poorly ...
© Maggie Wilson	Photo ID: 247156 View Count: 48
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3, Safflorite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As₂
	Lawson Mine, Kerr Lake, Coleman Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada Size: 12.0 x 7.5 x 9.0 cm Weight: 2.1 Kg This large cabinet specimen has no matrix. It consists almost entirely of Cobalt Arsenides with minor Dolomite. It has a botryoidal surface covered in micro-crystals of Skutterudite and Safflorite (to 1.5 mm). The Cobalt Arsenides predominantly consist of Cobaltite, Safflorite, and Skutterudite.
© Maggie Wislon	Photo ID: 194720 View Count: 85
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3, Proustite : Ag₃AsS₃
	Měděnec (Kupferberg), Klášterec nad Ohří, Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Ústí Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic 1.5 mm crystal (lower-left corner) of skutterudite, with other small crystals of this mineral, forming veins. Small dots are proustite.
© L Kruszewski 2007	Photo ID: 91886 View Count: 203
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3
	Měděnec (Kupferberg), Klášterec nad Ohří, Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Ústí Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic Aggregate of metallic grey skutterudite crystals. Size of sample 6,5×4 cm. Collection of the Moravian Museum Brno (http://www.mzm.cz).
© Jakub Jirásek	Photo ID: 130822 View Count: 156
Skutterudite : (Co,Fe,Ni)As_2-3
	Měděnec (Kupferberg), Klášterec nad Ohří, Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Ústí Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic Skutterudite 2mm crystal photo & collection S.Broetto
	Photo ID: 146460 View Count: 127