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Laueite & Stewartite

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Laueite & Stewartite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11 × 8 × 5 cm
Description

This is a very rich and old Hagendorf specimen.

Goldenyellow laueite crystals in several vugs all around the specimen with gemmy yellow stewartite, pseudolaueite and straw-yellow strunzite.

With minor glassy diadochite.

Ex Armine Wendland collection - aquired 1978

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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