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Kleemanite, a new zinc aluminium phosphate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

E. S. Pilkington
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry, Port Melbourne, Australia
E. R. Segnit
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry, Port Melbourne, Australia
J. Watts
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry, Port Melbourne, Australia
G. Francis
Affiliation:
Iron Knob, South Australia

Summary

A new hydrated zinc aluminium phosphate mineral has the composition ZnAl2(PO4)2(OH)2.3H2O. It has been named kleemanite. It occurred rarely both as veinlets 1–2 mm thick, and as thin layers on surfaces of cracks and small cavities in one section of the iron ore deposit at Iron Knob, South Australia. Chemical, X-ray, thermal analysis, and optical data are given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1979

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