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Jungite & Scholzite

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Jungite & Scholzite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 0.7 × 1.1 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with a small spot of light yellow extremely rare jungite crystals in a tiny vug in matrix. This is surely one of the rarest minerals from Hagendorf and one of the rarest phosphates in the world! There is also a cluster of scholzite crystals in another vug. This mineral is very rarely offered for sale anywhere!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jungite

Formula: 
Ca2Zn4Fe3+8(PO4)9(OH)9·16H2O
Strunz: 
8.DJ.25
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

Scholzite

Formula: 
CaZn2(PO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CA.45
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic Prismatic or platy crystals
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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