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Zinkgruvanite, Ba4Mn2+4Fe3+2(Si2O7)2(SO4)2O2(OH)2, a new ericssonite-group mineral from the Zinkgruvan Zn-Pb-Ag-Cu deposit, Askersund, Örebro County, Sweden
Fernando Cámara
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “Ardito Desio”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Luigi Mangiagalli 34, 20133, Milan, Italy
Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box
50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Nils Jansson
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden
Erik Jonsson
Department of Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Sweden,
Villavägen 18, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16,
752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Andreas Karlsson
Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box
50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Jörgen Langhof
Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box
50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Jaroslaw Majka
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16,
752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Anders Zetterqvist
Zetterqvist Geokonsult AB, Kvarnbacksvägen 74, 168 74 Bromma,
Sweden
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Short summary
Zinkgruvanite, a barium manganese iron silicate with sulfate, is a new mineral found in drill core samples from the Zinkgruvan zinc, lead and silver mine in Sweden. It is associated with other minerals like baryte, barytocalcite, diopside and sulfide minerals. It occurs as flattened and elongated crystals up to 1 mm. It is almost black. Zinkgruvanite is closely related to the mineral yoshimuraite and based on its crystal structure, grouped with the ericssonite group of minerals.
Zinkgruvanite, a barium manganese iron silicate with sulfate, is a new mineral found in drill...
