Mineral name |
Jasmundite
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Height: 8 cm, width 9 cm |
Hölzel-No.
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9.AJ.500 |
Type of specimen
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Teil des HT |
IMA-No. / Accepted
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1981-047 |
Chemical formula
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Ca11(SiO4)4O2S |
Type locality
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Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Eifel, Ettringer Bellerberg near Mayen |
Associated minerals
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Mayenite, brownmillerite, calcite, wollastonite, gehlenite, larnite, diopside, grossular, pyrrhotite, spinel, ettringite, portlandite, hydrocalumite, vaterite, tobermorite, thaumasite |
Collection
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GeoMuseum - Universität zu Köln |
Contact person
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Dr. Rolf Hollerbach |
Catalogue−No. / Site
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M5026/86 / Stahlschrank Systematiksammlung |
Nature of type specimen
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Close intergrowth of jasmundite (greenish to brownish, partly pseudoisometric grains) with brownmillerite (dark reddish brown) and further paragenetic minerals (grain size of jasmundite up to 5 mm) |
References
Jasmundite, Ca22(SiO4)8O4S2, a new Mineral Hentschel, G., Dent Glasser, L. S. and Lee, C. K. N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 1983, 337-342 |
Notes / Further information
Sample B3, original material from the dissertation of G. Hentschel (University of Cologne, 1964). |
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