University of Hamburg Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg
Mineral name
 
Lepidolite
Sample 1999-0083 (to the left, size 8.5 x 8 x 6 cm) and sample 1999-4973, to the right) with original labels of M. H. Klaproth
Hölzel-No.
 
9.ED.260
Type of specimen
 
vermutl. T
IMA-No. / Accepted
 
prä-IMA
Chemical formula
 
K(Li,Al)3[(F,OH)2/(Si,Al)4O10]
Type locality
 
Czech Republic, Brno, Rozna, Hradesk Mt.
Associated minerals
 
 
Collection
 
Museum für Naturkunde - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Contact person
 
Dr. Ralf-Thomas Schmitt
Catalogue−No. / Site
 
Proben 1999-0083, 1999-4973 und 2006-02761
Nature of 
type specimen

 
Mineral specimens (1999-0083 and 1999-4973), mineral powder (2006-02761)
References

Klaproth, M. H. (1792)
Bergmännisches Journal, 2, 80
Notes / Further information

See: Rieder, M., Cavazzini, G., D'Yakonov, Y.S., Frank-Kamenetskii, V.A., Gottardi, G., Guggenheim, S., Koval, P.V., Müller, G., Neiva, A.M.R., Radoslovich, E.W., Robert, J.-L., Sassi, F.P., Takeda, H., Weiss, Z. & Woines, D.R. (1998): Nomenclature of the micas.- Canadian Mineralogist 36, 1-8. Lepidolite is a series name for a trioctahedral mica on, or close to, the trilithionite-polylithionite join.
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