tarbuttiten.
/ˈtɑːbətʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A basic zinc phosphate, Zn2PO4OH, found as faintly coloured or colourless triclinic crystals.
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hopeite1824
parahopeite1907
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1907 Nature 27 June 215/1 L. J. Spencer exhibited a suite of beautifully crystallised minerals, presented to the British Museum by Mr. Percy C. Tarbutt, from the Rhodesia Broken Hill mines in north-western Rhodesia... The crystals of this new species, for which the name tarbuttite is proposed, are anorthic.
1955 Mineral. Abstr. 12 479 Preliminary note on the occurrence of parahopeite and tarbuttite..in the Kef Semmah mine [in Algeria].
1974 Mineral. Mag. 39 684 Several uncommon phosphate minerals including tarbuttite, parahopeite, scholzite, and collinsite occur in near-surface gossans in the Reaphook Hill zinc prospect [in South Australia].
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