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Klaprothite (of Petersen or Beudant)

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Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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There have been four attempts at naming a mineral for Martin Heinrich Klaproth [1743-1817], chemist and discoverer of uranium, zirconium, and cerium. Francis S. Beudant coined klaprothite in 1824 and renamed the mineral klaprothine in 1832. Both of these names were soon shown to refer to lazulite. Klaprothite was used by Thomas Petersen in 1868. In 1873, George Brush rejected the re-use of this mineral name by Petersen and called it klaprotholite. In 1947, this mineral was identified using non-type specimens to be a mixture of wittichenite and emplectite by Edward Nuffield. G. Springer and S. Demirsoy studied non-type material and suggested that klaprothite was a polymorph of emplectite, possibly cuprobismuthite.
See Klaprothite (of Petersen) and Klaprothite (of Beudant).

Note: the name klaprothite was re-used for a new species in 2015.


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Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:
26813
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:26813:2

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KlaprothineA synonym of Lazulite
KlaprothiteA valid IMA mineral speciesNa6(UO2)(SO4)4 · 4H2O
Klaprothite (of Petersen)

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No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

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- This locality has map coordinates listed. - This locality has estimated coordinates. ⓘ - Click for references and further information on this occurrence. ? - Indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality. - Good crystals or important locality for species. - World class for species or very significant. (TL) - Type Locality for a valid mineral species. (FRL) - First Recorded Locality for everything else (eg varieties). Struck out - Mineral was erroneously reported from this locality. Faded * - Never found at this locality but inferred to have existed at some point in the past (e.g. from pseudomorphs).

All localities listed without proper references should be considered as questionable.
Argentina
 
  • Salta Province
    • La Poma Department
GALLISKI (1983)
Canada
 
  • British Columbia
    • Osoyoos Mining Division
      • Hedley
Dawson
Germany
 
  • Baden-WÞrttemberg
    • Freiburg Region
      • Rottweil
        • Schenkenzell
          • Wittichen
            • BÃķckelsbach valley
Palache et al. (1944)
            • Gallenbach valley
Palache et al. (1944)
Japan
 
  • Fukuoka Prefecture
    • Munakata City
Matsukuma (1962)
  • Okayama Prefecture
- (n.d.)
Slovakia
 
  • KoÅĄice Region
    • SpiÅĄskÃĄ NovÃĄ Ves District
Koděra (1986)
USA
 
  • North Carolina
Carpenter (1976)
Carpenter (1976)
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