TY - JOUR
T1 - Kintoreite, PbFe3(PO4)2(OH,H2O)6, a new mineral of the jarosite-alunite family, and lusungite discredited
AU - Pring, A.
AU - Birch, W. D.
AU - Dawe, J.
AU - Taylor, M.
AU - Deliens, M.
AU - Walenta, K.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - Kintoreite is a new lead iron phosphate mineral in the alunite-jarosite family, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It is the phosphate analogue of segnitite and the iron analogue of plumbogummite. Kintoreite occurs as clusters and coatings of cream to yellowish green rhombohedral crystals up to 2 mm high and with the principal form {112}. Kintoreite formed during oxidation of primary ore rich in galena, in the presence of solutions with high P/(As + S) ratios. Crystallographic properties are described. During the study of kintoreite, part of the type specimen of lusungite from Zaire was obtained and shown to be goyazite. The IMA's Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names has voted to discredit lusungite as a species, and has approved the renaming of the "lusungite' group as the segnitite group. -from Authors
AB - Kintoreite is a new lead iron phosphate mineral in the alunite-jarosite family, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It is the phosphate analogue of segnitite and the iron analogue of plumbogummite. Kintoreite occurs as clusters and coatings of cream to yellowish green rhombohedral crystals up to 2 mm high and with the principal form {112}. Kintoreite formed during oxidation of primary ore rich in galena, in the presence of solutions with high P/(As + S) ratios. Crystallographic properties are described. During the study of kintoreite, part of the type specimen of lusungite from Zaire was obtained and shown to be goyazite. The IMA's Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names has voted to discredit lusungite as a species, and has approved the renaming of the "lusungite' group as the segnitite group. -from Authors
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U2 - 10.1180/minmag.1995.59.394.14
DO - 10.1180/minmag.1995.59.394.14
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029537865
SN - 0026-461X
VL - 59
SP - 143
EP - 148
JO - Mineralogical Magazine
JF - Mineralogical Magazine
IS - 1
ER -