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Ludlamite & Phosphoferrite

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Ludlamite & Phosphoferrite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 4 × 1.8 cm
Description

Beautiful and absolutely gemmy, pale green ludlamite crystals in vugs on brown phosphoferrite. With golden-brown kryzhanovskite and white apatite spheres.

Ludlamite is rare at Hagendorf !

Very good old time specimen - collected in the 1960s

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Phosphoferrite

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mn2+)3(PO4)2·3H2O
Strunz: 
8.CC.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf North Pegmatite (Meixner Feldspar Pit), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany