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Beudantite
A valid IMA mineral species
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Colour:
Black, dark green, brown, dark yellow, red, greenish yellow, brown
Lustre:
Vitreous, Sub-Vitreous, Resinous, Greasy
Hardness:
3½ - 4½
Specific Gravity:
4.48
Crystal System:
Trigonal
Member of:
Name:
Named by Armand Lévy in 1826 in honor of François Sulpice Beudant [September 5, 1787, Paris, France – December 10, 1850, Paris, France], systematic Mineralogist, University of Paris, Paris, France. Beudant introduced many new mineral names in his books that have superseded older names.
Type Locality:
Isostructural with:
The arsenate analogue ofcorkite with which a complete solid-solution range exists. Also forms a solid solution withsegnitite andplumbojarosite from which it is difficult to distinguish.
A secondary mineral occurring in the oxidized zones of polymetallic deposits. It shows a large variety of different habits (tabular, acute rhombohedral, pseudo-cubic, pseudo-cuboctahedral, very rarely also acicular).
Some beudantite (and segnitite) may contain minor Sb replacing Fe.
Compare chemically very similar unnamed species:UM1976-04-AsOSO:CuFeHPb andUM1975-08-AsOSO:FeHPb.
A secondary mineral occurring in the oxidized zones of polymetallic deposits. It shows a large variety of different habits (tabular, acute rhombohedral, pseudo-cubic, pseudo-cuboctahedral, very rarely also acicular).
Some beudantite (and segnitite) may contain minor Sb replacing Fe.
Compare chemically very similar unnamed species:UM1976-04-AsOSO:CuFeHPb andUM1975-08-AsOSO:FeHPb.
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