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Strengite Cacoxenite & Diadochite

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Strengite Cacoxenite & Diadochite

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Description
Locality: 
Leonie I Mine, Auerbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

Pale pink, partly botryoidal crystal-groups of strengite in parageneses of goldenyellow cacoxenite and earthy red diadochite (says label on box) on limonite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Strengite

Formula: 
FePO4·2H2O
Strunz: 
8.CD.10
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
white
Type Locality: 
Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany

Cacoxenite

Formula: 
Fe3+24Al(PO4)17O6(OH)12·17H2O
Strunz: 
8.DC.40
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Hrbek Mine, Svatá Dobrotivá (St Benigna), Beroun (Beraun), Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Diadochite

Formula: 
Fe3+2(PO4)(SO4)(OH)·5H2O
Strunz: 
8.DB.05
Hardness: 
3.0 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Arnsbach, Hockeroda, Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany

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