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Formula: TiP
Phosphide of titanium
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Environments
Badengzhuite is a new mineral, approved in 2020 and to date (September 2024) reported only from the type
locality.
Localities
At the type locality, Orebody CR-11, Kangjinla Cr deposit, Luobusha ophiolite, Qusum Co. (Qusong Co.), Shannan
Prefecture (Lhokha Prefecture; Lhoka Prefecture), Tibet, China, titanium
minerals enclosed in corundum separated from the orebody include
native titanium, zangboite,
osbornite-khambaraevite
and jingsuiite, as well as the new (in 2020) minerals
badengzhuite and zhiqinite and two potentially new
titanium minerals. These minerals together constitute a spheroid 20 µm
across inferred to have crystallised from a droplet of titanium -
silicon - phosphorus intermetallic melt
(EJM 32.6.557-574).
Badengzhuite from Orebody CR-11 -
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