Glaucodot
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Glaucodot is a cobalt iron arsenic sulfide mineral with formula Template:Chem2. The cobalt:iron(II) ratio is typically 3:1 with minor nickel substituting. It forms a series with arsenopyrite Template:Chem2. It is an opaque grey to tin-white typically found as massive forms without external crystal form. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system. The locality at Håkansboda, Sweden has rare twinned dipyramidal crystals (see photo). It is brittle with a Mohs hardness of 5 and a specific gravity of 5.95. It occurs in high temperature hydrothermal deposits with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Glaucodot is classed as a sulfide in the arsenopyrite löllingite group.
Glaucodot was first described in 1849 in Huasco, Valparaíso Province, Chile. Its name originates from the Template:Langx ("blue") in reference to its use in the dark blue glass called smalt.
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- Webmineral:Glaucodot
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- Scandinavian mineral gallery Template:Webarchive
- Hurlbut, Cornelius S.; Klein, Cornelis, 1985, Manual of Mineralogy, 20th ed., p. 288, Template:ISBN