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Hokutolite

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Hokuto springs, Taipei Co., Taiwan Province, Taiwan
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Formula:
(Ba,Pb)SO
 
4
Name:Named after the japanese name of a hot spring in Taiwan.
A variety of Baryte

A Pb2+-rich (plumboan) variety of baryte deposited by very acid hot springs. Generally also contains minor strontium and minute traces or radium, making recently deposited hokutolite mildly radioactive (although this disappears in a few decades and is no longer detectable in specimens in old collections).

Originally described from Hokuto springs, Taipei Co., Taiwan Province, Taiwan and Peitou, Taipei Co., Taiwan Province, Taiwan.

See also radian barite.


Classification of Hokutolite

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Chemical Properties of Hokutolite

Formula:
(Ba,Pb)SO
 
4
Essential elements:Ba, O, S
All elements listed in formula:Ba, O, Pb, S

Other Names for Hokutolite

Synonyms:
Angleso-baryte
Other Languages:
German:Hokutolit
Spanish:Hokutolita

Other Information

Health Warning:No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

References for Hokutolite

Reference List:

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Jimbō (1913) American Journal of Science: 35: 464.

Okamoto, in: Wada's Minerals of Japan (1912), no. 4: 178.

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: 408, 410.

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    • Localities for Hokutolite

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    Japan
     
    • Honshu Island
      • Tohoku Region
        • Akita Prefecture
    		Rob Lavinsky
            • Shibukuro river
    		Ryoichi Ohashi (1920) Note on the plumbiferous barytes from Shibukuro, prefecture of Akita, Japan.
          • Yuzawa
    		Alfredo Petrov collection
    Taiwan
     
    • Taiwan Province
      • Taipei Co.
    		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: 412.
    Chang, F. H. (1961) Genetic study of anglesobarite (Hokutolite) from Peitou, Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 9, 7-17.
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