Mineral name
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Steiningerite
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Holotype specimen with colourless to creamy white steiningerite. |
Hölzel-No.
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- |
Type of specimen
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HT |
IMA-No. / Accepted
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2024-016 |
Chemical formula
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Ba2Zr2(Si4O12)O2 |
Type locality
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Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Eifel, near Daun, Üdersdorf, Löhley basalt quarry |
Associated minerals
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Minerals of the pyroxene group (augite-diopside), leucite, perovskite, titanite and accessory fluorapatite, fresnoite, wöhlerite, götzenite, fersmanite, magnetite and minerals of the pyrochlore group |
Collection
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Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz |
Contact person
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Dr. Grit Benedix |
Catalogue−No. / Site
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NHMMZ M 2024/1-LS |
Nature of
type specimen
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Rock sample |
References
Steiningerite, Ba2Zr2(Si4O12)O2, a new cyclosilicate from the Löhley quarry, Germany.
Juroszek, R., Krüger, B., Kolitsch, U., Frenz, G., Blaβ, G. (2025)
Mineralogical Magazine, 1-27. doi:10.1180/mgm.2024.102 |
Notes / Further information
The steiningerite-bearing rock samples were collected in 1990 by Günter Blaβ, Jochen Tschörtner and other collectors. |
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