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Stewartite & Laueite

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Stewartite & Laueite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 7 × 3 cm
Description

This is a extremely rich and good stewartite specimen from the famous Hagendorf Mine in Germany.

Collected in the late 1970s shows this beautiful specimen thousands of sharp yellow stewartite crystals on a bed of pale brown laueite microcrystals.

With minor rockbridgeite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Stewartite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Stewart Mine (MS 6162; Stewart Lithia mine), Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala District, San Diego Co., California, USA

Laueite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany