Skip to content
Mineralati

Minerals

Elaliite

elaliite

(Fe²⁺8Fe³⁺)(PO4)O8

Elaliite and Elkinstantonite, two unknown minerals, extracted from a ...

Elaliite and Elkinstantonite, two unknown minerals, extracted from a ... — via copperbeltkatangamining.com · Source

Overview

Elaliite is a mineral with formula Fe9PO12 (or Fe2+8Fe3+(PO4)O8) that was first synthesized in a laboratory in the 1980s and later identified in natural material in 2022 at which time the official mineral designation was given. The mineral is orthorhombic, with space group Cmmm (space group 65).

Scientific references

  1. Elaliite — Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115520207 Link
  2. Elaliite — Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaliite Link