A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Linnaeite coated with wad from LaMotte Mine, near Rico, Colorado |
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| Description | Most of this sample is linnaeite, Co3S4. Usually it is gray-white and metallic, but the top surface in this photograph is coated with manganese oxides (wad). Linnaeite is normally a trace mineral that occurs with other cobalt sulfides. In a few places it is an important ore mineral. This sample is about 6 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Colorado. Near Rico. LaMotte Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-02-23. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #563. |
| Key words | linnaeite, wad, Colorado |
| Tech details | 811 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 160 |
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