University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Brownmillerite
Height: 8 cm, width 9 cm
Hölzel-No.
 
4.CE.700
Type of specimen
 
HT
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
1963-017
Chemical formula
 
Ca2(Al, Fe)2O5
Type locality
 
Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Eifel, Ettringer Bellerberg near Mayen
Associated minerals
 
Mayenite, calcite, wollastonite, gehlenite, larnite, diopside, grossular, pyrrhotite, spinel, ettringite, portlandite, hydrocalumite, jasmundite, vaterite, tobermorite, thaumasite
Collection
 
GeoMuseum - Universität zu Köln
Contact person
 
Dr. Rolf Hollerbach
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
M5026/86 / Stahlschrank Systematiksammlung
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Intergrowth of mayenite (colourless), brownmillerite (dark reddish brown) and further associated minerals (grain size of brownmillerite max. 150 µm)
References

Mayenit, 12CaO·7Al2O3, und Brownmillerit, 2CaO·(Al, Fe)2O3, zwei neue Minerale in den Kalksteineinschlüssen der Lava des Ettringer Bellerberges
Hentschel, G. (1964)
N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 22-29
Notes / Further information

Sample B3, original material from the dissertation of G. Hentschel (University of Cologne, 1964).
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