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Keckite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

Keckite is a very rare calcium manganese phosphate and this specimen comes from the type locality Hagendorf South Mine, Bavaria, Germany.

This is a very rich specimen of golden-brown keckite microcrystals with golden strunzite needles and minor laueite crystals in vugs of the rockbridgeite matrix.

Very good old specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Keckite

Formula: 
CaMn2+Fe3+2Fe3+2(PO4)4(OH)3(H2O)7
Strunz: 
8.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany