Niedermayrite
Sulfate mineral
(repeating unit)(same H-M symbol)
c = 6.079(1) [Å]; β = 92.04(3)°; Z = 2
Niedermayrite is a rare hydrated copper cadmium sulfate hydroxide mineral with formula: Cu4Cd(SO4)2(OH)6·4H2O. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system and occurs as encrustations and well formed vitreous blue-green prismatic crystals. It has a specific gravity of 3.36.
Niedermayrite was named for Gerhard Niedermayr (born 1941), an Austrian mineralogist. It was first described in 1998 from a mine in the Lavrion District, Attica, Greece. It is also reported from the Ophir District, Tooele County, Utah.[2] The environment is in brecciated marble. The cadmium dominant analogue of campigliaite.
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