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Bialite

A synonym of Wavellite
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Formula:
Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Name:
After Lucian Bia (Liège, Belgium, December 2 1852 - Tenke, DRCongo August 30 1892), an explorer of the Belgian Congo.
Synonym:
A synonym of Wavellite
A sample with a mineral occuring as spherules composed of white needles on a dense phospate matrix originating from Mushishimano, Democratic Republic of the Congo was analyzed, described and named as a new mineral with the name bialite by Buttgenbach in 1927-28. The sample was provided by Emile Richet.
The mineral was later found to be identical with wavellite and descredited.


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Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:
6572 (as Bialite)
4250 (as Wavellite)
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:6572:2 (as Bialite)
mindat:1:1:4250:1 (as Wavellite)
GUID
(UUID V4):
3dca677d-778c-4acc-95fb-4bc99431a28c (as Bialite)
3502621e-70f2-4099-b630-0edf9fb007d9 (as Wavellite)

References for BialiteHide

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Buttgenbach, H. (1927-1928) Notes sur la bialite, nouveau minéral, et sur quelques autres minéraux du Katanga. Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique. 51: C117-120
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 906.
Embrey, P.G. & Fejer, E.E. (1969) Tavistockite and bialite discredited, Mineralogical Magazine, 37, 123-127
Van Der Meersche, E., De Paepe, P. & Stoops, G. (2009) Minerals with Belgian Roots: from hopeite (1824) to tazieffite. Academia Press: Gent 2009. [p.89]

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