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Landesite & Ludlamite

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Landesite & Ludlamite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5.2 × 1.6 cm
Description

Deep brown Landesite octehedrons with gemmy pale green ludlamite crystals and silky white metaswitzerite crystals very rich on Phosphoferrite/Kryzhanovskite matrix.

A very rare specimen from Hagendorf mine - ex Dr. Lebherz collection - collected in the early 1960s

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Landesite

Formula: 
Mn2+3-xFe3+x(PO4)2(OH)x·(3-x)H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Berry-Havey Quarry (Havey Quarry; Berry Quarry), Poland, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA

Ludlamite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mn,Mg)3(PO4)2·4H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.20
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Wheal Jane (Falmouth Consolidated Mines), Baldhu, Kea, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK