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Brandtite & Kutnohorite

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Brandtite & Kutnohorite

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Description
Locality: 
Sailauf, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 2 × 1.1 cm
Description

A small but nice example of the rare manganese bearing arsenate brandtite from the Fuchs quarry at Sailauf, Germany. There are pinkish brownish platy crystals on a matrix of pinkish carbonate (allegedly kutnohorite) and host rock.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Brandtite

Formula: 
Ca2(Mn2+,Mg)(AsO4)2·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CG.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Type Locality: 
Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Persberg district, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden

Kutnohorite

Formula: 
Ca(Mn,Mg,Fe)(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Poličany, Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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