Kolbeckite
Kolbeckite | |
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Light-green spherical aggregates of microcrystals of Kolbeckite, to just over 1mm in size. Locality: Schlarbaum quarry, Klause, Bad Gleichenberg, Styria, Austria. Size: 4.9 x 3.9 x 2.3 cm. | |
General | |
Category | Phosphate minerals |
Formula (repeating unit) | ScPO4·2H2O |
Strunz classification | 08.CD.05 |
Kolbeckite (scandium phosphate dihydrate) is a mineral with formula: ScPO4·2H2O. It was discovered originally at Schmiedeberg, Saxony, Germany in 1926 and is named after Friedrich L. W. Kolbeck, a German mineralogist. Kolbeckite is usually found as small clusters of crystals associated with other phosphate minerals.
References
- Hey, M. H.; Milton Charles, Dwornik Edward J. (1982). "Eggonite (Kolbeckite, Sterrettite), ScPO4·2H2O". Mineralogical Magazine 46 (341): 493–497. doi:10.1180/minmag.1982.046.341.15.
- Kolbeckite at Mindat.org
- Kolbeckite at Webmineral
See also
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