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Keckite

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Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

Keckite is a very rare calcium manganese phosphate and this specimen comes from the type locality Hagendorf South Mine, Bavaria, Germany.

This is a very rich specimen of golden-brown keckite microcrystals with golden strunzite needles and minor laueite crystals in vugs of the rockbridgeite matrix.

Very good old specimen.

Ex. Erich Laskowski collection.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Keckite

Formula: 
CaMn2+Fe3+2Fe3+2(PO4)4(OH)3(H2O)7
Strunz: 
8.DH.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Hagendorf South Pegmatite (Cornelia Mine; Hagendorf South Open Cut), Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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