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Jungite

Rare Mineral
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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.6 × 1.1 cm
Description

Typical yellow tabular and very thin crystals of jungite on rockbridgeite matrix.

Jungite is an extremely rare CaZnFe Phosphate and is only reported from the Hagendorf pegmatite. Jungite exists only in a very few specimens.

This is truely a very good and rich small specimen - collected 1977.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Jungite

Formula: 
Ca2Zn4Fe3+8(PO4)9(OH)9·16H2O
Strunz: 
8.DJ.25
Hardness: 
1.0
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany