[Rockhounds] RE: Question, Cobaltian Calcite

[Axel Emmermann]

Careful, Larry... Too much Beryllium Erbium can make you Barium
Ruhterfordium 

Axel 

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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens Kreigh 
> Tomaszewski
> Verzonden: vrijdag 1 augustus 2008 2:47
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] RE: Question, Cobaltian Calcite
> 
> Some prefer
> 
> BeEr
> 
> (Beryllium Erbium)
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, Jul 31, 2008, at 19:20 America/Detroit, Lawrence Rush
> wrote:
> 
> > But some of us prefer:
> >
> > CoCa CoLa
> >
> > (Cobaltium Calcide/Cobaltium Lanthanide)
> >
> > Larry Rush
> >
> > (Hope this doesn't start something!)
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: <pmodreski at aol.com>
> > To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:02 PM
> > Subject: 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> >>> [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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