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Mazorite from
Mazorite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:Mazorite
Formula:Ba3(PO4)2
Chemical Analyses:
Empirical formulas:
1(Ba2.69K0.22Na0.04Ca0.02Sr0.01)Σ2.98(P1.16V0.57S0.24Al0.04Si0.03)Σ2.04O8
Sample references:
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Juroszek, Rafał, Krüger, Biljana, Krüger, Hannes, Galuskina, Irina (2023) Minerals with a palmierite-type structure. Part II. Nomenclature and classification of the palmierite supergroup. Mineralogical Magazine, 87 (5) 690-694 doi:10.1180/mgm.2023.56
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mazorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mazorite type locality, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Beersheba Subdistrict, Southern District, Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1512012
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1512012:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Hatert, Frédéric, Pasero, Marco, Mills, Stuart J. (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 68. European Journal of Mineralogy, 34 (5) 385-391 doi:10.5194/ejm-34-385-2022
Krzątała, Arkadiusz, Skrzyńska, Katarzyna, Cametti, Georgia, Galuskina, Irina, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny (2023) Fluoralforsite, Ba5(PO4)3F – a new apatite-group mineral from the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 87 (6). 866-877 doi:10.1180/mgm.2023.58
 
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