althausite
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Althausite is a relatively simple magnesium phosphate mineral with formula Mg2(PO4)(OH,F). It is very rare. Original occurrences are magnesite deposits among serpentinites. It is named after Egon Althaus (born 1933), a mineralogist at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
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It is catalogued under topics including Magnesium minerals, Minerals in space group 62 and Orthorhombic minerals.
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Althausite
- Mineral.image
- Althausite-Hematite-Lizardite-704015.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Dark reddish brown, subhedral crystals of althausite in a serpentine-talc matrix with dark gray subhedral hematite crystals and greenish lizardite
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate minerals
- Mineral.formula
- Mg2(PO4)(OH,F)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Ahs
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.BB.25
- Mineral.system
- Orthorhombic
- Mineral.class
- Dipyramidal (mmm) H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
- Mineral.symmetry
- Pnma
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phosphate mineral
- Image
- Althausite-Hematite-Lizardite-704015.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.BB.25
- crystal system
- orthorhombic crystal system
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.BB.25
- Commons category
- Althausite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ahs
- chemical formula
- Mg₄(PO₄)₂(OH,O)(F,☐)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Althausite is a relatively simple magnesium phosphate mineral with formula Mg2(PO4)(OH,F). It is very rare. Original occurrences are magnesite deposits among serpentinites. It is named after Egon Althaus (born 1933), a mineralogist at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
==References==
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