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Inderite

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Inderit
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Inderit
Bildbreite: 4 mm; Fundort Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese, Turin, Italien
Copyright: Stephan Wolfsried; Contribution: Hg
Location: Italien/Piemont (Piemonte), Region/Turin (Torino), Provinz/Canavese/Ivrea/Cálea/Miniera di Brosso
Mineral: Inderite
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Inderit

Bildbreite: 4 mm; Fundort Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese, Turin, Italien
Copyright: Stephan Wolfsried
Contribution: Hg 2006-11-25
Locality: Miniera di Brosso / Cálea / Ivrea / Canavese / Turin (Torino), Provinz / Piemont (Piemonte), Region / Italien
Inderit neben Dypingit aus Brosso
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Inderit neben Dypingit aus Brosso
Mineralien: Inderit xx (transparente-weisse blockige xx), Dypingit (grau-weisse kugelige Aggregate); Fundort: Brosso Mine, Piemont, Italien; Bestimmung: optisch Bestimmt WF; Bildbreite: 2,4 mm
Copyright: Florian; Contribution: Florian
Collection: Florian, Collection number: 764
Location: Italien/Piemont (Piemonte), Region/Turin (Torino), Provinz/Canavese/Ivrea/Cálea/Miniera di Brosso
Mineral: Dypingite, Inderite
Image: 1395173092
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Inderit neben Dypingit aus Brosso (SNr: 764)

Mineralien: Inderit xx (transparente-weisse blockige xx), Dypingit (grau-weisse kugelige Aggregate); Fundort: Brosso Mine, Piemont, Italien; Bestimmung: optisch Bestimmt WF; Bildbreite: 2,4 mm
Collection: Florian
Copyright: Florian
Contribution: Florian 2014-03-18
Locality: Miniera di Brosso / Cálea / Ivrea / Canavese / Turin (Torino), Provinz / Piemont (Piemonte), Region / Italien
Inderit
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Inderit
Bildbreite: 5 mm; Fundort: Miniera di Brosso, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese, Turin (Torino), Piemont (Piemonte), Italien
Copyright: Joachim Esche; Contribution: Philip Blümner
Location: Italien/Piemont (Piemonte), Region/Turin (Torino), Provinz/Canavese/Ivrea/Cálea/Miniera di Brosso
Mineral: Inderite
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Inderit

Bildbreite: 5 mm; Fundort: Miniera di Brosso, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese, Turin (Torino), Piemont (Piemonte), Italien
Copyright: Joachim Esche
Contribution: Philip Blümner 2009-07-12
Locality: Miniera di Brosso / Cálea / Ivrea / Canavese / Turin (Torino), Provinz / Piemont (Piemonte), Region / Italien
Inderit
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Inderit
Größe: 80 mm; Fundort: Kern Co., Kalifornien, USA
Copyright: Philip Blümner; Contribution: Philip Blümner
Collection: giantcrystal
Location: USA/Kalifornien (California)/Kern Co.
Mineral: Inderite
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Inderit

Größe: 80 mm; Fundort: Kern Co., Kalifornien, USA
Collection: giantcrystal
Copyright: Philip Blümner
Contribution: Philip Blümner 2010-02-21
Locality: Kern Co. / Kalifornien (California) / USA
Inderit
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Inderit
Bildbreite: 20 mm; Fundort: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., Kalifornien, USA
Copyright: Leonardus; Contribution: Philip Blümner
Location: USA/Kalifornien (California)/Kern Co./Kramer District/Boron/Kramer Boratlagerstätte/U.S. Borax Mine/U.S. Borax Open Pit (Boron Pit, Rio Tinto Borax Mine)
Mineral: Inderite
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Inderit

Bildbreite: 20 mm; Fundort: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., Kalifornien, USA
Copyright: Leonardus
Contribution: Philip Blümner 2008-07-31
Locality: U.S. Borax Open Pit (Boron Pit, Rio Tinto Borax Mine) / U.S. Borax Mine / Kramer Boratlagerstätte / Boron / Kramer District / Kern Co. / Kalifornien (California) / USA

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Collectors Summary

Color farblos
Streak color weiß
Hardness (Mohs) 2.5
Solubility +++ HCl, - kaltes H2O
Crystal System monoklin, P21/c

Chemism

Chemical formula

Mg[B3O3(OH)5]·5H2O

Chemical composition

Magnesium, Bor, Sauerstoff, Wasserstoff

Unit weight: 279.851955 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 32

Info

Empirical formula:

Mg[B3O3(OH)5]·5H2O

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Hydrogen

H

5.40

15

46.88

1.0079470

15.1192050
Boron

B

11.59

3

9.38

10.8117000

32.4351000
Oxygen

O

74.32

13

40.63

15.9994300

207.9925900
Magnesium

Mg

8.68

1

3.13

24.3050600

24.3050600

Analysis wt%

MgO : 14.65, B2O3 : 36.20, H2O : 48.20 (Ref: Dana, 7th ed. 2)

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

6.CA.15

6: Borate
C: Triborate
A: Insel (Neso)-Triborate
15:Inderit-Gruppe

Lapis Classification

V/H.06-020

V: NITRATE, CARBONATE UND BORATE
H: Gruppenborate
6: Planare und tetraedrische Gruppen [B3O5] 1- bis [B6O10] 2-

Classification by Hölzel

6.CA.200

6: Borates
C: Triborates
A: Nesotriborates
2: Inderite-Group - 3(P+2T)

Dana 8th edition

26.03.01.03

26: Hydrated Borates Containing Hydroxyl or Halogen
03: Hydrated Borates Containing Hydroxyl or Halogen
01: Inyoite Group

IMA status

Anerkannt von der CNMNC

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

Optical Properties

Color

farblos

Streak color

weiß

max. Birefringence

0.017
Birefringence chart\! Inderite title=Birefringence chart Inderite

Michel-Levy Color Chart viewed according to the maximum birefringence (at 30μm). Mineral color is not taken into account. Click on the image to enlarge or change thickness.

RI value α / ω / n

1.488

RI value β

1.491

RI value γ / ε

1.505

Ri mean

1.495

2V angle

Biaxial (+) 37°

Crystallography

Crystal System

monoklin

Class (H-M)

2/m

Space Group number

14

Space Group

P21/c

Cell parameters a (Å)

11.934

Cell parameters b (Å)

13.094

Cell parameters c (Å)

6.886

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

0.911

Cell parameters c/b

0.526

Cell parameters α

90°

Cell parameters β

104.12

Cell parameters γ

90°

Z

4

Volume (ų)

1043.522

Crystal structure

Bing Zhou, Vladimir K. Michaelis, Yuanming Pan, Yefeng Yao, Kimberly T. Tait, Brendt C. Hyde, John E.C. Wren, Barbara L. Sherriff, Scott Kroeker: Crystal structure refinements of borate dimorphs inderite and kurnakovite using 11B and 25Mg nuclear magnetic resonance and DFT calculations. American Mineralogist Vol. 97, Nr. 11-12 (2012) S. 1858-1865.

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

6.61(40),
5.84(40),
5.72(60),
5.052(100),
3.357(70),
3.279(40),
2.662(40),
2.558(40)
XRD chart Inderite

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Crystals 3D

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Crystal Structure 3D

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Physical Properties

Hardness (Mohs)

2.5

VHN (Hardness Vickers)

53 (ungefähre Angabe abgeleitet aus der Mohshärte)

Density (g/cm³)

1.785 (gemessen)

1.781 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

Instability

+++ HCl, - kaltes H2O

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

Kasachstan/Atyrau oblysy/Atyrau (Gur'yev)/Inder B-Lagerstätte und Salzdom

Kasachstan/Atyrau oblysy/Atyrau (Gur'yev)/Inder B-Lagerstätte und Salzdom/Mt. Kzyl-tau/Lagerstätte No. 7

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Boldyreva & Egorova, 1937

References

Handbook of Mineralogy (Anthony et al.), 5 (2003), 323.

G. Diego Gatta, Silvia C. Capelli, Davide Comboni, Enrico Cannaò: On the crystal-chemistry of inderite, Mg[B3O3(OH)5](H2O)4·H2O. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals Volume 51, Issue 2 (2024) Art.-Nr. 21. Open Access https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00269-024-01281-w.pdf

Other languages

German

Inderit

Spanish

Inderita

French

Inderite

English

Inderite

Russian

Индерит

Simplified Chinese

多水硼镁石

Alternative Name

German

Lesserit

Spanish

Lesserita

English

Lesserite

German

Loesserit

Spanish

Loesserita

Loesserite

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Idr

Locations with GPS information

IDs

GUSID (Global unique identifier short form) TEz3DZg7HUC874uyL1E5SA
GUID (Global unique identifier) 0DF74C4C-3B98-401D-BCEF-8BB22F513948
Database ID 1718