Pseudosinhalite: discovery of the hydrous MgAl-borate as a new mineral in the Tayozhnoye, Siberia, skarn deposit

• Published in: Contributions to mineralogy and petrology Vol. 133; no. 4; pp. 382 - 388
• Main Authors: Schreyer, W., Pertsev, N. N., Medenbach, O., Burchard, M., Dettmar, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer Nature B.V 01.12.1998
• Subjects: Boron; Carbon dioxide; Geology; Mineralogy; Minerals; Petrology; Siberia; Russia

After its initial synthesis as the new compound Mg2Al3B2O9(OH) (Daniels et al. 1997) pseudosinhalite has now been discovered as a new mineral. It occurs, together with hydrotalcite, as a replacement product of sinhalite, MgAlBO4, in an impure marble of the contact metasomatic iron boron deposit of T...