| Locality type: | Quarry |
| Classification |
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| Species: | Fluorapophyllite-(K) |
| Formula: | KCa4(Si8O20)(F,OH) · 8H2O |
| Comments: | Refined occupancy of F site: 1.00 (R = 1.8%; Uwe Kolitsch structure refinement) -> fluorapophyllite |
| Habit: | prismatic xx up to 12 mm |
| Colour: | colorless, pink, yellow |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Fluorite | 3 |
| Aegirine | 1 |
| Tuperssuatsiaite | 1 |
| Villiaumite | 1 |
| Sazhinite-(Ce) | 1 |
| Manganoneptunite | 1 |
| BastnÃĪsite-(Ce) | 1 |
| Ellingsenite | 1 |
| Natrolite | 1 |
| Sazhinite | 1 |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Fluorapophyllite-(K) data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (18 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 43593 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:43593:2 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 0 |
| References |
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Petersen, O. V., Fockenberg, T., Toft, P. C., Rattay, M. (1997) Natrophosphate from the Aris phonolites, Windhoek, Namibia. Neues Jahrbuch fÞr Mineralogie - Monatshefte, 1997 (11) 511-517 doi:10.1127/njmm/1997/1997/511 Chukanov, Nikita V., Britvin, Sergey N., Blass, GÞnter, Belakovskiy, Dmitriy I., Van, Konstantin V. (2012) Windhoekite, Ca2Fe3+3-x(Si8O20)(OH)4·10H2O, a new palygorskite-group mineral from the Aris phonolite, Namibia. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (1) 171-179 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2161 Kolitsch, Uwe, BlaÃ, GÞnter, Jahn, Steffen, CÃĄmara, Fernando, Bezing, Ludi von, Wartha, Ralf R., Tremmel, Gerd, Sturla, Marco, Cerea, Paolangelo, Skebo, Michael, et al. (2016) Aris - mineralogy of the famous alkaline phonolite. AMI - Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana. p.1-95. |
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Aris Quarries, Aris, Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia