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Elbaite, the neotype material from the Rosina pegmatite, San Piero in Campo, Elba island, Italy
Ferdinando Bosi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
Federico Pezzotta
MUM – Mineralogical Museum Luigi Celleri, San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy
Henrik Skobgy
Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50 007, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
Riccardo Luppi
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
Paolo Ballirano
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
Ulf Hålenius
Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50 007, 104 05, Stockholm, Sweden
Gioacchino Tempesta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Giovanna Agrosì
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Jiří Sejkora
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00, Prague 9, Czech Republic
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The study of the original material of beraunite from the type locality Hrbek, Czech Rep., from collections of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany) and National Museum Prague (Czech Republic) proved the identity of the minerals beraunite and eleonorite. Because the name beraunite has priority, we consider the name eleonorite to be redundant and proposed to abolish it. The proposal 21-D approved by the IMA discredited eleonorite and accepted the formula of beraunite Fe3+6(PO4)4O(OH)4·6H2O.
Pavel Škácha, Jiří Sejkora, Jakub Plášil, Zdeněk Dolníček, and Jana Ulmanová
Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 175–187, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-175-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-175-2021, 2021
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Grimmite, sulfide of cobalt and nickel, is the new mineral for the mineralogical system.
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This study describes the elbaite neotype, found in crystals from a site on Elba island, Italy. Researchers analyzed these nearly colorless crystals and found that their formation was influenced by earlier changes in the surrounding rock. As different minerals formed first, they set the stage for elbaite to develop later in deeper spaces. This work helps us understand how changes in the local environment affect how and when certain minerals grow.
This study describes the elbaite neotype, found in crystals from a site on Elba island, Italy....