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Barium-analogue mineral
Dargaite
General
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Formula
(repeating unit)
BaCa12(SiO4)4(SO4)2O3

Dargaite is a rare mineral with formula BaCa12(SiO4)4(SO4)2O3. It is the barium-analogue of nabimusaite, also differing from it in the lack of fluorine. It is one of many recently approved new minerals coming from the Hatrurim complex. Dargaite, as nabimusaite, is trigonal (space group R-3m).

References

  1. : Gfeller, F., Galuskina, I.O., Galuskin, E.V., Armbruster, T., Vapnik, Y., Dulski, M., Gardocki, M., Jeżak, L., and Murashko, M., 2015. Dargaite, IMA 2015-068. CNMNC Newsletter No. 28, December 2015, 1860; Mineralogical Magazine 79, 1859–1864
  2. "Dargaite: Dargaite mineral information and data". Mindat.org. Retrieved 2016-03-02.


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