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Pseudolaueite Laueite & Stewartite

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Pseudolaueite Laueite & Stewartite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 4.5 × 3.3 cm
Description

Beautiful and gemmy microcrystals of pseudolaueite (Pic.1)  and laueite (Pic.2) with stewartite (Pic. 3) on matrix. With olivegreen mitridadite, black rockbridgeite and minor kryptomelan.

Beautiful old specimen from Franz Bauer collection, Munich. Collected 1978

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

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

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