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Strengite

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Strengite

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Description
Locality: 
Kreuzberg, Pleystein, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 9 × 3.5 cm
Description

Very old specimen with good crystals of strengite in quartz matrix. The locality is also rare in European collections and only a few of them contain specimens from it.

Very rich !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany