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Formula: CaZn2(PO4)2.2H2O
Hydrated normal phosphate, monoclinic paramorph of orthorhombic
scholzite
Crystal System: Monoclinic
Specific gravity: 3.12 measured, 3.10 calculated
Hardness: 4
Streak: White
Colour: Colourless to white
Environments
Parascholzite is a secondary mineral produced by
alteration of primary phosphates in complex
granite
pegmatites
(HOM).
Localities
At the type locality, the Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Neustadt an der Waldnaab District, Upper
Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, parascholzite was discovered on
pegmatite specimens, where it occurs as well-developed crystals
less than 1.0 mm in size associated with vivianite,
phosphophyllite and
strengite.
Parascholzite was first identified on a specimen in the Smithsonian collection. Subsequently it appeared that
parascholzite also occurs, in some form, at all known scholzite
locations
(AM 66.843-851).
Associated minerals include scholzite,
vivianite, phosphophyllite
and strengite
(HOM).
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