Kettnerite

kettnerite

mixite

bismuthinite

perite

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Formula: CaBiO(CO3)F
Anhydrous carbonate, bismuth-bearing mineral
Crystal System: Orthorhombic
Specific gravity: 5.80 measured, 5.85 calculated
Colour: Brown, brownish yellow, lemon-yellow
Environments

Pegmatites
Hydrothermal environments

Localities

At the type locality, the Barbora adit, Knöttel area, Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic, kettnerite occurs as small brown, brownish-yellow, to lemon-yellow plates in cavities in a quartz vein cutting pegmatitic K-feldspar. Associated minerals are fluorite, bismuth, bismuthinite, hematite and altered topaz (AM 42.121).
The kettnerite occurs as 0.2 to 0.3 mm plates on quartz or fluorite (AM 43.385).

Kettnerite from the Barbora Adit - Image

At the Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA, kettnerite is associated with perite, hemimorphite, bromian chlorargyrite, fluorite, chrysocolla and quartz (HOM).

Kettnerite from the Blue Bell Mine - Image

At the Tintic Mining District, Juab County, Utah, USA, kettnerite seems to occur in most of the mines in the district that have mixite, and the two usually occur together in specimens that contain either of the two minerals. Kettnerite has been found at the Northern Spy, North Star, Carisa, Ajax, Gold Chain and Centennial Eureka mines. Most commonly it occurs as pearly white to white-yellow spheres to 0.2 mm, and groups of these spheres may cover areas up to a few square millimeters. At the North Star mine, slightly larger spheres up to 0.3 mm composed of visible pale blue-green crystals of kettnerite have been found with preisingerite on a quartz and baryte matrix (MinRec 55.2.208-209).

Kettnerite from Tintic - Image

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