Flashcards: Arsenate minerals

Erythrite or red cobalt is a secondary hydrated cobalt arsenate mineral with the formula (Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O).

Jarosewichite is a rare manganese arsenate mineral with formula: Mn2+3Mn3+(AsO4)(OH)6.

Abernathyite is a mineral with formula K(UO2)(AsO4)·3H2O.

Roselite is a rare arsenate mineral with chemical formula: Ca2(Co,Mg)[AsO4]2·H2O.

Annabergite is an arsenate mineral consisting of a hydrous nickelarsenate, Ni3(AsO4)2·8H2O, crystallizing in the monoclinic system and isomorphous with vivianite and erythrite.

Olivenite is a copper arsenate mineral, formula Cu2AsO4OH.

Carminite (PbFe3+2(AsO4)2(OH)2) is an anhydrous arsenate mineral containing hydroxyl.

Eveite is a manganese arsenate mineral in the olivenite group.

Beudandite is a secondary mineral occurring in the oxidized zones of polymetallic deposits.

Adamite is a zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, Zn2AsO4OH.

Akrochordite is an exceptionally rare hydrated hydrous arsenate mineral of the formula (Mn,Mg)4(AsO4)2(OH)4.

Mimetite, whose name derives from the Greek Μιμητής mimetes, meaning "imitator", is a lead arsenate chloride mineral (Pb5(AsO4)3Cl) which forms as a secondary mineral in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite.

Picropharmacolite, Ca4Mg(AsO3OH)2(AsO4)2·11H2O, is a rare arsenate mineral.

Warikahnite is a rare zinc arsenate mineral of the triclinic crystal system with Hermann- Mauguin notation 1, belonging to the space group P1.

Andyrobertsite is a rare, complex arsenate mineral with a blue color.

Geigerite is a mineral, a complex hydrous manganese arsenate with formula: Mn5(AsO3OH)2(AsO4)2·10H2O.

Kaatialaite (Fe(H2AsO4)3·5H2O) is a ferric arsenate mineral found in Finland.

Kankite is a mineral with the chemical formula Fe3+AsO4·3.

Keyite is a mineral with the chemical formula Cu2+3Zn4Cd2(AsO4)6 · 2H2O.

Köttigite is a rare hydrated zinc arsenate which was discovered in 1849 and named by James Dwight Dana in 1850 in honour of Otto Friedrich Köttig (1824 - 1892), a German chemist from Schneeberg, Saxony, who made the first chemical analysis of the mineral.

Pharmacosiderite is a hydrated basic ferric arsenate, with chemical formula KFe4(AsO4)3(OH)4·(6-7)H2O and a molecular weight of 873.

Arsenoclasite (originally arsenoklasite) is a red or dark orange brown mineral with formula Mn5(AsO4)2(OH)4.

Sarkinite, synonymous with chondrarsenite and polyarsenite, is a mineral with formula Mn2(AsO4)(OH).

Tyrolite is a hydrated calcium copper arsenate carbonate mineral with formula: CaCu5(AsO4)2CO3(OH)4·6H2O.

Aerugite is a rare complex nickel arsenate mineral with a variably reported formula: Ni9(AsO4)2AsO6.

Cornubite is a rare secondary copper arsenate mineral with formula: Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4.

Strashimirite is a rare monoclinic mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, and oxygen.

Fornacite is a rare lead, copper chromate arsenate hydroxide mineral with the formula: Pb2Cu(CrO4)(AsO4)(OH).

Tsumcorite is a rare hydrated lead arsenate mineral that was discovered in 1971, and reported by Geier, Kautz and Muller.

Metazeunerite is an arsenate mineral with a chemical formula of Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·8H2O.

Arthurite is a mixture of divalent copper and iron ions in combination with trivalent arsenate, phosphate and sulfate ions with hydrogen and oxygen.

Allactite is a rare arsenate mineral of metamorphosed manganese zinc ore deposits.

Legrandite is a rare zinc arsenate mineral, Zn2(AsO4)(OH)·(H2O).

Zincolivenite is a copper zinc arsenate mineral with formula CuZn(AsO4)(OH) that is a member of the olivenite group.

Zeunerite is a green copper uranium arsenate mineral with formula Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2•(10-16)H2O.

Agardite is a mineral group consisting of agardite-(Y), agardite-(Ce), agardite-(Nd), and agardite-(La).

Szklaryite is an extremely rare mineral with the formula []Al6BAs33+O15.

Wiklundite is a rare and complex arsenite-silicate mineral with the formula Pb2(Mn2+,Zn)3(Fe3+,Mn2+)2(Mn2+,Mg)19(As3+O3)2(Si,As5+O4)6(OH)18Cl6.

Juansilvaite is a very rare, complex arsenate-sulfate mineral with formula Na5Al3[AsO3(OH)]4[AsO2(OH)2]2(SO4)2·4H2O.

Vasilseverginite is a very rare arsenate-sulfate mineral with formula Cu9O4(AsO4)2(SO4)2.

Pharmacolite is an uncommon calcium arsenate mineral with formula CaHAsO4·2(H2O).

Euchroite is a hydrated copper arsenate hydroxide mineral with formula: Cu2AsO4OH·3H2O.

Austinite is a member of the adelite-descloizite group, adelite subgroup, the Zn end member of the Cu-Zn series with conichalcite.

Duftite is a relatively common arsenate mineral with the formula CuPb(AsO4)(OH), related to conichalcite.

Bukovskyite (also known as "clay of Kutná Hora") is an iron arsenate sulfate mineral with formula: Fe2(AsO4)(SO4)(OH)·7H2O which forms nodules with a reniform (kidney-shaped) surface.

Liroconite is a complex mineral: Hydrated copper aluminium arsenate hydroxide, with the formula Cu2Al[(OH)4|AsO4]·4(H2O).

Clinoclase is a hydrous copper arsenate mineral, Cu3AsO4(OH)3.

Arseniosiderite is a rare arsenate mineral formed by the oxidation of other arsenic-containing minerals, such as scorodite or arsenopyrite.

Brassite is a rare arsenate mineral with the chemical formula Mg(AsO3OH)·4(H2O).

Cabalzarite is a rare arsenate mineral with formula: (Ca(Mg,Al,Fe3+)2[AsO4]2·2(H2O,OH). It is a member of the tsumcorite group. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system and typically occurs as clusters of crystals or granular aggregates. It was first described for samples from an abandoned manganese mine in Falotta, Graubünden, Switzerland and named for Swiss amateur mineralogist Walter Cabalzar. It was approved as a new mineral by the IMA in 1997. It has also been reported from the Aghbar mine in Ouarzazate Province, Morocco.

Cahnite (Cahnit in German, Cahnita in Spanish, Канит in Russian) is a brittle white or colorless mineral that has perfect cleavage and is usually transparent.

Cornwallite is an uncommon copper arsenate mineral with formula Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4.

Fluckite is an arsenate mineral with the chemical formula CaMnH2(AsO4)2·2(H2O).

Sewardite is a rare arsenate mineral with formula of CaFe2+3(AsO4)2(OH)2.

Talmessite is a hydrated calcium magnesium arsenate, often with significant amounts of cobalt or nickel.

Urusovite is a rare copper aluminium arsenate mineral with formula: CuAlAsO5.

Vladimirite is a rare calcium arsenate mineral with a formula of Ca5(HAsO4)2(AsO4)2·5H2O.

Weilite (CaHAsO4) is a rare arsenate mineral.

Chalcophyllite is a rare secondary copper arsenate mineral occurring in the oxidized zones of some arsenic-bearing copper deposits.

Conichalcite, CaCu(AsO4)(OH), is a relatively common arsenate mineral related to duftite (PbCu(AsO4)(OH)).

Bayldonite (BAIL-done-ite) is a rare secondary mineral with the chemical formula PbCu3(AsO4)2(OH)2.

Scorodite is a common hydrated iron arsenate mineral, with the chemical formula FeAsO4·2H2O.

Mixite is a rare copper bismuth arsenate mineral with formula: BiCu6(AsO4)3(OH)6·3(H2O).

Xanthiosite is an arsenate mineral first discovered in Germany in 1858; it may also be found in Greece.