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Cacoxenite

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Cacoxenite

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Description
Locality: 
Rotläufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Lahnau, Lahn-Dill, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.8 × 1.4 cm
Weight: 
10.00gr
Description

Good sample of cacoxenite crystals, of fibrous and granular morphology in a limonite matrix of the former iron and manganese mine "Rotläufchen" located about 6 km NE of Wetzlar, a beautiful yellow and brownish yellow phosphate, a secondary mineral of the oxidized areas where to find magnetite in iron-rich soils.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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