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Metaswitzerite & Landesite

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Metaswitzerite & Landesite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 2 × 1.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug hosting some tiny sharp sprays of metaswitzerite on rockbridgeite with thousands of small brown landesite crystals. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metaswitzerite

Formula: 
Mn3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CE.25
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Foote Lithium Co. Mine (Foote Mine), Kings Mountain District, Cleveland Co., North Carolina, USA

Landesite

Formula: 
Mn2+3-xFe3+x(PO4)2(OH)x·(3-x)H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA

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