TETRAHEDRITE In my former post with " mindat " link...
It describes the mystery mineral as a potential - treatrahedrite -
This involves - compound binding.
Hnece - the name - tetrahedrite.
Silver Giant Mine.... obviously mined silver....
SILVER MINER - FINDS NICKEL + COBALT ( tetrahedrite )
Here's another miner -
Coeur d'Alene - famous silver mine.
Who also found a - cobalt / nickel - amongst their silver ores.
What gave away the two other important minerals ?
The BLOOM effect.. .which is most likely the cobalt sweating and reacting to
show itself in another color variation - transitioning. Compound bonding, tetra style.
Multiple minerals in a complex bond.
Now throw in all the other intel of how magnesium reacts just like silver...
In that... silver mines hosr cobalt and nickel...
And... magnesium has close relations to cobalt -
And how cobalt can bond to magnesium and all the new species of magnesium with cobalt or nickel, in carbonate, silicate, or hydroxide.
Let's ask...
how many labs may have missed this - co bonding - of minerals over the years ?
I would say... many. Cheap assaying and simple fire assaying - would coach a melt alloy of the metals - and if in a complex bond with say a - prominant mineral - the other minerals with in that bond would still be there but since the prminant mineral with higher percentage would take presidence - and here we think... our alloy metals have purity... but that's another subject.
Whcih involves accurate detecting and purity of grades - overseas iron steel anyone ? lol
Abstract
Cobalt and nickel of possible commercial interest have been discovered in the Silver Summit mine, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho. Assay data indicate that an ore shoot contained about 0.40 percent cobalt and about 1.0 percent nickel in addition to the copper and rich silver ores. The cobalt-nickel mineral gersdorffite occurs in tetrahedrite-siderite veins. Gersdorffite is widespread in small amounts and appears to have been the first of the "ore shoot" minerals. The known occurrence of either cobalt bloom or gersdorffite in other properties of the Coeur d'Alene district Silver Belt suggests that other ore shoots may exist that contain commercial quantities of cobalt and nickel.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/segweb/economicgeology/article-abstract/49/7/753/16375/The-occurrence-of-cobalt-and-nickel-in-the-Silver
So... what are the chances of a silver mine right aside, or perhaps right on our claims,
that causes our dolomites to turn - pink, purple, grene, yellow, orage ?
lol
Cheers.....