Mineral name
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Sperlingite
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Small mineral specimen with microscopic colorless sperlingite crystals |
Hölzel-No.
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- |
Type of specimen
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HT |
IMA-No. / Accepted
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2023-120 |
Chemical formula
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(H2O)K(Mn2+Fe3+)(Al2Ti)(PO4)4[O(OH)] [H2O)9(OH)] · 4H2O |
Type locality
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Germany, Bavaria, Upper Palatinate, Hagendorf-South (pegmatite) |
Associated minerals
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In altered zwieselite, in association with columbite, hopeite, leucophosphite, mitridatite, scholzite, zincoberaunite and zincolibethenite. |
Collection
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Museum Reich der Kristalle - Mineralogische Staatssammlung München |
Contact person
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Dr. Melanie Kaliwoda |
Catalogue−No. / Site
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MSM38185 |
Nature of
type specimen
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Micromount |
References
Sperlingite, (H2O)K(Mn2+Fe3+)(Al2Ti)(PO4)4[O(OH)] [H2O)9(OH)] · 4H2O, a new paulkerrite-group mineral, from the Hagendorf-Süd pegmatite, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany
Rewitzer, C., Hochleitner, R., Grey, I.E., Kampf, A.R., Boer, S., MacRae, C.M., Mumme, W.G., Wilson, N.C., and Davidson, C.J. (2024)
Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 88 , |
Notes / Further information
Collected at the Hagendorf-Süd feldspar mine by Christian Rewitzer in 1974. |
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