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Formula: ZrMo6+2O7(OH)2.2H2O
Molybdate of zirconium
Crystal System: Tetragonal
Specific gravity: 3.74 calculated
Streak: White
Colour: Yellowish green to bluish grey
Environments
Kingsgateite is a new mineral, approved in 2019 and to date (August 2022) reported only from the type locality.
Localities
At the type locality, Old 25 Pipe (Pipe No. 14), Kingsgate, Gough county, New South Wales, Australia,
kingsgateite is a new supergene mineral that occurs in
cavities in a quartz-muscovite
matrix associated with molybdenite,
gelosaite and mambertiite. It
forms yellowish green to bluish grey, square tabular crystals to 0.12 mm across
(MM 86.3.486-491).
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