Prosopite

Image

Lavender prosopite with green amazonite on one end and micro xls. of ralstonite & tomsenolite on the other end, from Morefield Pegmatite Mine; Amelia Co., Virginia, USA

© Photo by Mark Joseph Wylie (via Wikimedia Commons), Public Domain

Properties

Formula CaAl2F4(OH)4
Abbreviation Psp
Classification Minerals containing OH
Luminescence emitters Ce, Dy, Gd, Tb
IMA Status Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1853
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Tags Hydroxide , Mineral, Halide

Composition

Element Atoms
Ca 1
Al 2
F 4
H 4
O 4
Total: 15

References

Reference
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Gorobets and Rogojine 2002 1 0 0
Rogozhin et al. 1982 5 0 0