A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Smaltite from Cobalt, Ontario |
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| Description | Smaltite, (Co,Ni)As3, is an important ore of cobalt. Smaltite is an opaque tin-white to steel-gray mineral of the pyrite group. Crystals may have the form of cubes or cubo-octahedra, but are generally imperfectly developed and are rare. More often the mineral is found as compact or granular masses. |
| Location | Canada ▹ Ontario. Near Cobalt. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-17. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #193. |
| Key words | smaltite, Ontario, Canada |
| Tech details | 588 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1229 |
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