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Pseudolaueite & Strunzite

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Pseudolaueite & Strunzite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 7.4 × 3.3 cm
Description

Very small pseudolaueite crystals together with strawyellow strunzite needles and honeybrown laueite on a limonite-apatite-rockbridgeite matrix.

Very rich specimen of three rare phosphate minerals collected in 1977.

Please Note:Some of these photos have been taken with a microscope.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pseudolaueite

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

Strunzite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany