Description
You know that a mineral species is rare when you don’t remember when you heard last of it. This is the case with Schoonerite, a Zinc-Manganese-Iron Phosphate that fills the 1.7 cm measuring cavity of this miniature specimen. Olive-brown acicular to lath-shaped Schoonerite microcrystals abundantly line the vug. It is probably no surprise that the specimen is from the Phosphate Pegmatite in Hagendorf, Bavaria, Germany, which produced a lot of weird minerals.