Mineralpedia Details for Devitoite
Devitoite
Named to honor Alfred Devito who was a prominent mineral collector of micromounts in particular and a field collector and contributor to the mineralogical community of California in the United States. Devitoite is a rare mineral that can be found only at its type locality in the Esquire No. 8 claim in the Big Creek-Rush Creek district of California, USA. There, it occurs as “an alteration product of gillespite along fractures and parting planes in a sanbornite-bearing rock.”
Ref. Handbook of Mineralogy, Anthony et al (1995) and MSA at http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/devitoite.pdf
- Formula
- [Ba6(PO4)2(CO3)][Fe2+7Fe3+2(SiO3)8O2(OH)4]
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Devitoite from Esquire #8 claim, Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, United States
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This specimen has several brownish red sprays embedded in matrix to 2mm. This new IMA mineral found thus far at only one locality, is a complex barium species with PO4 and CO3 interlayerd groups. The mineral was originally discovered by Robert Walstrom in 1982.
Thin brown to golden brown or "clove brown" blades of Devitoite in divergent crystal groups to 1mm and singular blades to <0.5mm embedded in Quartz matrix.
