Niedermayrite

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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 affiliated with the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. 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.[1] The environment is in brecciated marble. The cadmium dominant analogue of campigliaite.

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