Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Stewartite Laueite & Strunzite

Views:
Watches:
CR63721

Stewartite Laueite & Strunzite

Rare Mineral

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.5 × 3 cm
Description

Golden yellow, gemmy microcrystals of stewartite in several vugs all over the specimen.

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

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

Strunzite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.25
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany