University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Kastningite
Width of sample: 25mm
Hölzel-No.
 
8.DE.460
Type of specimen
 
CT
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
97-033 / 1998
Chemical formula
 
(Mn,Fe,Mg)Al2(PO4)2(OH)2 · 8H2O
Type locality
 
Germany, Bavaria, Upper Palatinate, Waidhaus, Silbergrube quarry
Associated minerals
 
With paravauxite and variscite in a quartz-albite-muskovite matrix
Collection
 
Mineralogisches Museum - Universität Hamburg
Contact person
 
Prof. Dr. Jochen Schlüter
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
MMHH HGDF 41 / Tresor des Museums
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Mineral specimen
References

Kastningite, (Mn,Fe,Mg)Al2(PO4)2(OH)2 · 8H2O, a new phosphate mineral from Waidhaus, Bavaria, Germany.
J. Schlüter, K.-H. Klaska, K. Friese, G. Adiwidjaja (1999)
N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 1, 40 - 48

The crystal structure of kastningite (Mn,Fe,Mg)(H2O)4[Al2(OH)2(H2O)2(PO4)2] · 2H2O - a new hydroxyl aquated orthophosphate hydrate mineral.
G. Adiwidjaja, K. Friese, K.-H. Klaska, J. Schlüter (1999)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 214, 465 -468
Notes / Further information

Discovered in the open pit „Silbergrube” by Jürgen Kastning, Reinbek, Germany, in September 1996. Holotype used up for the examinations.
Last update 27. April 2022 by A. Matthies Imprint (german)