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Pucherite & Schumacherite

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Pucherite & Schumacherite

G. Backmann & David Burgess collection
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Description
Locality: 
Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 4 × 2.6 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with a fracture surface with rich small crystals of pucherite. On the opposite side of the specimen are seveal samll vugs with yellow crystals of schumacherite and atelestite. Rich sample from the G. Backmann and David Burgess collections. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pucherite

Formula: 
Bi(VO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.40
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Pucher Shaft, Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Schumacherite

Formula: 
Bi3(VO4)2O(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BO.10
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Pucher Shaft, Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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