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Allabogdanite

Allabogdanite
General
CategoryPhosphide mineral
Formula
(repeating unit)
(Fe,Ni)2P
IMA symbolAbg[1]
Strunz classification1.BD.15
Crystal systemOrthorhombic
Crystal classDipyramidal (mmm)
H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m)
Space groupPnma
Unit cella = 5.748, b = 3.548
c = 6.661 [Å]; Z = 4
Identification
ColorLight straw-yellow
Crystal habitMinute exolution laminae in plessite
TenacityBrittle
Mohs scale hardness5–6
LusterMetallic
DiaphaneityOpaque
Specific gravity7.11
References[2][3][4]

Allabogdanite is a very rare phosphide mineral with the chemical formula (Fe,Ni)2P, found in 1994 in a meteorite.[2][5] It was described for an occurrence in the Onello meteorite in the Onello River basin, Sakha Republic; Yakutia, Russia; associated with taenite, schreibersite, kamacite, graphite and awaruite.[2] It was named for Russian geologist Alla Bogdanova.[3]

In a June 2021 study, scientists reported the discovery of terrestrial allabogdanite in a sedimentary formation. It is located in the Negev desert of Israel, just southwest of the Dead Sea.[4]

  1. ^ Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. S2CID 235729616.
  2. ^ a b c Mindat
  3. ^ a b Webmineral data
  4. ^ a b Britvin, Sergey N.; Vereshchagin, Oleg S.; Shilovskikh, Vladimir V.; Krzhizhanovskaya, Maria G.; Gorelova, Liudmila A.; Vlasenko, Natalia S.; Pakhomova, Anna S.; Zaitsev, Anatoly N.; Zolotarev, Andrey A.; Bykov, Maxim; Lozhkin, Maksim S.; Nestola, Fabrizio (2021). "Discovery of terrestrial allabogdanite (Fe,Ni)2P, and the effect of Ni and Mo substitution on the barringerite-allabogdanite high-pressure transition". American Mineralogist. 106 (6): 944–952. Bibcode:2021AmMin.106..944B. doi:10.2138/am-2021-7621. S2CID 226434207.
  5. ^ Britvin, Sergey N.; Rudashevsky, Nikolay S.; Krivovichev, Sergey V.; Burns, Peter C.; Polekhovsky, Yury S. (2002). "Allabogdanite, (Fe,Ni)2P, a new mineral from the Onello meteorite: The occurrence and crystal structure". American Mineralogist. 87 (8–9): 1245–1249. Bibcode:2002AmMin..87.1245B. doi:10.2138/am-2002-8-924. S2CID 99564642.

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