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Pucherite & Petitjeanite

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Pucherite & Petitjeanite

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Description
Locality: 
Pucher Shaft, Schneeberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm
Description

A boxed micromount showing brownish Pucherite crystals (TL) and yellow aggregates of Petitjeanite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pucherite

Formula: 
Bi(VO4)
Strunz: 
8.AD.40
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Pucher Shaft, Wolfgang Maaßen Mine field, Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Petitjeanite

Formula: 
Bi3(PO4)2O(OH)
Strunz: 
8.BO.10
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Bergweg, Gadernheim, Lautertal (Odenwald), Odenwald, Hesse, Germany