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Phosphoferrite

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Phosphoferrite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.5 × 7 × 5 cm
Description

This is a very good and rich phosphoferrite specimen from Hagendorf mine.

Dozends of sharp brown and partly translucent crystals of phosphoferrite up to 5 mm in several vugs. With minor ludlamite.

RARE !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Phosphoferrite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)3(PO4)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf North Pegmatite (Meixner Feldspar Pit), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany