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The olivine group

FAYALITE

FORSTERITE

TEPHROITE

GLAUCOCHROITE

 

The humite group

NORBERGITE

CHONDRODITE

HUMITE

CLINOHUMITE

 

The manganese-humite and leucophoenicite groups

ALLEGHANYITE

MANGANHUMITE

SONOLITE

LEUCOPHOENICITE

JERRYGIBBSITE

 

The garnet group

ALMANDINE

ANDRADITE

GROSSULAR

GOLDMANITE

SPESSARTINE

 

Other nesosilicates

BAKERITE

BULTFONTEINITE

CHLORITOID

CLINOHEDRITE

DATOLITE

ESPERITE

GENTHELVITE

GERSTMANNITE

HODGKINSONITE

HOLDENITE

KOLICITE

LARSENITE

SILLIMANITE

THORITE

TITANITE

URANOPHANE

WILLEMITE

YEATMANITE

ZIRCON

 

MANGANHUMITE

Mn7(SiO4)3(OH)2 
Orthorhombic

Manganhumite, a manganese silicate hydroxide mineral of the manganese-humite group, was reported from Franklin by Dunn (1985a). It is massive, medium brown, and has no discernible fluorescence in ultraviolet. It occurs in 10 cm masses associated with abundant franklinite and zincite, the latter with much hetaerolite exsolution and traces of manganosite exsolution. Minor associated minerals are alleghanyite and calcite; willemite is absent. A microprobe analysis of manganhumite is presented in Table 1.           

 

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CHAPTER 15. NESOSILICATES