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Breithauptite - Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada (#:MINS8834)

Specimen rich of pinkish Breithauptite sum-mm xls on matrix.Geological Survey of Canada Label. Find year 1922.

Formula :
NiSb
System: hexagonal Hardness:5½ Rarity:not common
Strunz id:II/C.20-30 - SULFIDES
Name origin: Named in 1840 by Julius Fröbel in honor of Saxon mineralogist Johann Friedrich August Breithaupt {May 16,1791 Probstzella, Germany - September 22, 1873). Breithaupt was professor at the Bergakademie in Freiburg, Germany and later successor to Friedrich Mohs at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Breithaupt was a prolific systematic mineralogist and originated the concept of paragenesis. Originally named antimonickel and described in 1833 by Friedrich Stromeyer.