[Rockhounds] RE: Question, Cobaltian Calcite

[Axel Emmermann]

Better... You've outdone me, Pete.
I wouldn't have come up with this in a million years.

I shall go and live out my remaining years in some Nepalese cave with no
other sustenance than salted yak-butter tea and Yeti droppings.

Cheers ;-)))))
Axel
 

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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens pmodreski at aol.com
> Verzonden: vrijdag 1 augustus 2008 0:02
> Aan: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] RE: Question, Cobaltian Calcite
> 
> As a slightly off-topic aside, at a science teachers' meeting 
> I was at the other night, one fellow was wearing a T-shirt 
> with information about an unsual new mineral, a carbonaceous 
> holmium-lanthanum cobalt telluride, i.e., it said, CHoCoLaTe
> 
> (Isn't this a post, almost worthy of Axel himself?)
> 
> Cheers, Pete
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Emmermann <axel.emmermann at pandora.be>
> To: bj9709 at yahoo.com; 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list 
> for rock and gem collectors' <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 4:31 pm
> Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] RE: Question, Cobaltian Calcite
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> 
> Hi Brett,
> 
> Spherocobaltite (or is it sphaerocobaltite) is CoCO3.
> It's one of the pure ones, the "end-members", of the calcite group.
> 
> Calcite (CaCO3)
> Magnesite (MgCO3)
> Otavite (CdCO3)
> Rhodochrosite (MnCO3)
> Siderite (FeCO3)
> Smithsonite (ZnCO3) 
> 
> Have I forgotten a few?
> 
> Mangano-calcite is in between rhodochrosite and calcite, 
> there's also cadmian-smithsonite...
> 
> Cheers
> Axel
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> > Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
> > [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens Brett Allen 
> > Johnson
> > Verzonden: donderdag 31 juli 2008 23:07
> > Aan: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> > Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] RE: Question, Cobaltian Calcite
> > 
> > On the subject of Cobaltian Calcite.
> > What is the difference between Sphaerocobaltite and 
> Cobaltian Calcite?
> > I have googled both and got many conflicting answers. Some 
> say CoCO3, 
> > others say (Co,Ca)CO3.
> > I am not sure, but I think I have both Sphaerocobaltite and 
> Cobaltian 
> > Calcite in my collection. So, I need to find out what is 
> what = so I 
> > can identify my specimens correctly. Thank, Brett
> > 
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