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Whitmoreite Laueite & Strunzite

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Whitmoreite Laueite & Strunzite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 4.3 × 3.5 cm
Description

This is a very rich and good old time phosphate combination specimen from the famous Hagendorf South pegmatite in Bavaria, Germany.

Honeybrown sprays and globular aggregates of whitmoreite microcrystals with gemmy yellow-brown laueite crystals, straw-yellow strunzite needles, yellow pseudolaueite and minor stewartite crystals on a limonit-diadochite matrix.

Very attractive specimen especially under a lense or microscope.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Whitmoreite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Palermo No. 1 Mine (Palermo No. 1 pegmatite; Hartford Mine; GE Mine), Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 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

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