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Wagnerite - Sold
- Karasu pegmatite
- Turkestan Range
- Osh Oblast
- Kazakhstan
- 4.4 × 2.7 × 2.1 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Wagnerite is a magnesium phosphate fluoride, and namesake for the wagnerite mineral group. Fuchs (1821) named the mineral in honor of Franz M. von Wagner (1768-1851), mining official in Munich, Germany.
Wagnerite forms uneven, flesh-colored cleavages to 2.7 cm in matrix. The matrix is granitic pegmatite, consisting of albite, muscovite and quartz, with accessory triphylite. From the collection of E.R. Laskowski (1949-2020), a mining engineer who retired to Tucson, Arizona.
