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Pattersonite

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Description
Locality: 
Vereinigung Mine, Eisenbach, Selters, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1.2 × 1 cm
Description

Rare pattersonite on limonite. Type locality and named after A.L. Patterson, crystallographer & physicist, who developed the Patterson method in structure solution for single crystal diffraction data.

Reference:U. Kolitsch, H.-J. Bernhardt, W. Krause and G. Blaß (2008): Pattersonite, PbFe3(PO4)2(OH)4[(H2O)0.5(OH)0.5]2, a new supergene phosphate mineral: description and crystal structure. European J. Mineralogy 20, 281-288; Jahn, S. (2008): Pattersonit - ein neues Mineral von der Grube Vereinigung bei Eisenbach. Mineralien-Welt 19 (4), 26-29 (in German)

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pattersonite

Formula: 
PbFe3+3(PO4)2(OH)5·H2O
Strunz: 
8.BL.25
Hardness: 
4.0 - 0.0
Type Locality: 
Vereinigung Mine, Eisenbach, Bad Camberg, Taunus, Hesse, Germany