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Weinebeneite & Roscherite

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Weinebeneite & Roscherite

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Description
Locality: 
Spodumene Prospect, Brandrücken, Koralpe, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5 × 3.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with two round, slightly radial masses of extremely rare weinebeneite crystals with lots of small brown clusters of roscherite on fine grained pegmatite matrix from the type locality for this rare zeolite that is also a phosphate. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Weinebeneite

Formula: 
CaBe3(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Spodumene prospect (Brandrücken exploration adit; Weinebene deposit), Brandrücken, Moschkogel - Weinebene area, Koralpe, Carinthia, Austria

Roscherite

Formula: 
Ca2Mn2+5Be4(PO4)6(OH)4·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic Tabular crystals or platy aggregates
Hardness: 
4.5 - 0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Greifenstein Rocks, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

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