| Name: | Hydroxylellestadite Hel |
| IMA Chemistry: | Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5OH |
| Chemistry Elements: | The mineral Hydroxylellestadite contains elements: Calcium (Ca) Silicon (Si) Oxygen (O) Sulfur (S) Hydrogen (H) |
| Country of Type Locality: | USA |
| Year First Published: | 1937 |
| IMA Status: | Approved,Renamed |
| Status Notes: | McConnell D (1937) The substitution of SiO_4_- and SO_4_-groups for PO_4_-groups in the apatite structure; ellestadite, the end-member, American Mineralogist 22, 977-986 In the following paper, the authors incorrectly assumed that the ellestadite described by McConnell was F-dominant, and they thought their mineral was a new species: Harda K, Nagashima K, Nakao K, Kato A (1971) Hydroxylellestadite, a new apatite from Chichibu Mine, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, American Mineralogist 56, 1507-1518 Name changed from hydroxylellestadite to ellestadite-(OH): Burke E A J (2008) Tidying up mineral names: an IMA-CNMNC scheme for suffixes, hyphens and diacritical marks, The Mineralogical Record 39, 131-135 Name changed from ellestadite-(OH) back to hydroxylellestadite: Pasero M, Kampf A R, Ferraris C, Pekov I V, Rakovan J R, White T J (2010) Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals, European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 163-179 |
| Structural Group Name: | Apatite |
| Fleischer's Group Name: | tritomite |
| Crystal Systems: | hexagonal|monoclinic |
| Oldest Known Age: | 794 Million Years Ago |
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