Stiblite
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Stiblite, stibilite, stibiolite (German: Stiblith from Latin: Stibium + Ancient Greek: λίθος, stone), also stibiconise or antimony ochre[1]: 330 (Spiessglanzocker, Stibiconise)[2]: 372 — an obsolete, formerly widely used mineralogical name for one of the best known and most widespread antimony ochres. Established in 1847 (by Johann Blum and Delfs) a decade and a half after stibiconite,[3]: 129 stiblite was known in the 19th century as a secondary antimony mineral of the ″hydrous oxide″ class,[4]: 236–237 it was an amorphous, pale yellowish precipitate found in association with blaenierite (bindheimite) and jamesonite, and was particularly found at Trevinnick Mine, near Endellion, Cornwall.[2]: 372 It is now considered a synonym of stibiconite.[5]
Other known stiblit deposits in the mid-19th century included Losacio area (Spain), Felsobany and Kremnitz (Hungary), Goldkronach (Bavaria), and the Carmen mines (Zacualpan, Mexico).[6]: 431 Large stiblit deposits were also discovered in Peru (Cajamarca).[7]: 190–191
In a more general form, the term stiblit was often used broadly in relation to antimony ochres in general,[2]: 372 or only to those forms that contain molecular water (hydroxide ochres). This happened starting in the second half of the 19th century, primarily because the term ″antimony ochre″ in mineralogy began to rapidly become obsolete and required an adequate replacement. As a result, the broad term ″stiblit″ was used in conditions of a lack of analytical data on the exact composition of the oxides (secondary minerals) covering stibnite and other antimony ores.
In addition, under the same name stiblit, which resembles a play on words, you can sometimes find another mineral from the zeolite family, which has nothing to do with antimony — sodium stilbite,[1]: 325 a hydrous aluminosilicate with a variable chemical composition, having the calculated formula NaCa4(Si27Al9)O72•28H2O.
Stiblite gallery
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[edit]- ^ a b Krivovichev V. G. Mineralogical glossary. Scientific editor A. G. Bulakh. — St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg Univ. Publ. House. 2009. — 556 p. — ISBN 978-5-288-04863-0
- ^ a b c Robert Philips Greg, William Garrow Lettsom (1858). Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain & Ireland. — London: John Van Voorst, 1858.
- ^ Minerals (handbook). Volume II. Issue 3. Complex oxides, titanates, niobates, tantalates, antimonates, hydroxides. Editors in charge: F. V. Chukhrov, E. M. Bonshtedt-Kupletskaya. — Moscow: Nauka, 1967.
- ^ V. V. Nefedyev. Notes of the Imperial St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society, second series, part fourteen. Ordinary meeting, April 25, 1878. — Saint Petersburg: Printing House of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vasilievsky Island, 9 p., No. 12, 1879.
- ^ Stiblite, a synonym of Stibiconite: information about the mineral stiblit in the Mindat.
- ^ Henry Watts (1868). A Dictionary of Chemistry, vol. 5. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1868.
- ^ Antonio Raimondi (1878). Minéraux du Pérou: Catalogue raisonné d’une collection des principaux types minéraux de la République. — A. Chaix Et Cie, Paris. — 336 pp.
External links
[edit]- Stiblite, a synonym of Stibiconite: information about the obsolete name of the mineral stiblit in the Mindat.
- Stibiconite (Stibilit) in the Mineralienatlas.
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