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Stewartite & Pseudolaueite

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Stewartite & Pseudolaueite

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Description
Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm
Description

A very rich and especially under the microscope a fantastic Hagendorf specimen with beautiful, gemmy, yellow stewartite crystals, some yellowbrown pseudolaueite crystals (picture 2) and orangebrown Laueite crystals in vugs of a Rockbridgeite/Mitridadite matrix.

With pale yellow beraunite and glassy brown diadochite.

Collected 1972

 

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

Pseudolaueite

Formula: 
Mn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.30
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany