4 - Stibiconite

ID	4
Mineral	Stibiconite
Location	Zacatecas City - Zacatecas - Mexico
Fluorescence	LW-UV: close SW-UV: close
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ID	3776
Long ID	1:1:3776:7
IMA Status	0 1
Description	Stibiconite was for a long time an acknowledged species, but is now questionable, in line with the revised nomenclature of the minerals of the pyrochlore supergroup (Atencio et al. 2010). Stibiconite is not, as yet, a discredited mineral and is clas...
Other Occurrences	Secondary mineral in hydrothermal deposits, mainly replacing stibnite.
Discovery Year	1862
Diapheny	Transparent
Colour	White, creamy-white, light to sulphur-yellow, orange, light brown; colourless to cloudy in transmitted light
Hardness (min)	5.5
Hardness (max)	7.0
About the name	Named by Beudant in 1832 from the Greek "stibi", antimony, plus "konis", powder, alluding to its composition and habit.
Crystal System	Isometric
Morphology	Massive, botryoidal, as crusts that may be concentrically zoned and up to several cm thick; typically powdery, compact.
key_elements	0
shortcode_ima	Sbc

Stibiconite