tarbuttita
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Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Tarbuttite
- Mineral.category
- Phosphate minerals
- Mineral.image
- Tarbuttite.JPG
- Mineral.caption
- Tarbuttite from Broken Hill mine (Kabwe mine) in Central Province, Zambia
- Mineral.formula
- Zn2(PO4)(OH)
- Mineral.IMAsymbol
- Tbt
- Mineral.strunz
- 8.BB.35
- Mineral.dana
- 41.6.7.1
- Mineral.system
- Triclinic
- Mineral.class
- Pinacoidal () (same H-M symbol)
- Mineral.symmetry
- P
- Mineral.unit cell
- a = 5.400 Å, b = 5.654 Å c = 6.465 Å, α = 102.51° β = 102.46°, γ = 86.50° Z = 2
- Mineral.color
- White, colorless, yellow, red, green, or brown
- Mineral.habit
- Equant to short prismatic [001], sheaf-like aggregates, crusts, individual crystals rounded and deeply striated
- Mineral.cleavage
- Perfect on {010}
- Mineral.fracture
- Irregular, uneven
- Mineral.mohs
- 3.5
- Mineral.luster
- Vitreous, pearly on cleavages
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- phosphate mineral
- Image
- Tarbuttite-mun08-10b.jpg
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 8.BB.35
- Commons category
- Tarbuttite
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 8.BB.35
- crystal system
- triclinic crystal system
- type locality (geology)
- Kabwe
- streak color
- white
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Tbt
- chemical formula
- Zn₂(PO₄)(OH)
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- VII/B.04b
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La tarbuttita es un mineral de la clase de los minerales fosfatos, y dentro de esta pertenece al llamado “grupo de la olivenita”. Fue descubierta en 1907 en Kabwe, en la provincia Central (Zambia), siendo nombrada así en honor de Percy C. Tarbutt, minero inglés.
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