Important Update News
The RRUFF Project is being updated to improve its interface and content. The beta version of the update is accessible to the public at RRUFF.net. New data is only being added to the beta site. Please note that it is in development, and some components are not functional. Existing RRUFF.info links will resolve to the new site after RRUFF.net is officially released.
We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.
![]() |
![]() |
Name: Asbolane RRUFF ID: R070359 Ideal Chemistry: Mn4+(O,OH)2·(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)x(OH)2x·nH2O Locality: Hachberg, Saint Avold, Moselle, France Source: Michael Scott S101785 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Thin black platelets coating grains of quartz Status: The identification of this mineral is not yet confirmed. |
Mineral Group: [ Not in a structural group (133) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Asbolane samples (2) ] |
RAMAN SPECTRUM | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
BROAD SCAN WITH SPECTRAL ARTIFACTS | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
REFERENCES for Asbolane | |
---|---|
Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
|
Breithaupt J F A (1841) Genus 8. Maurites. Species 1. Maurites, Asbolanus kürzer, Asbolan, in Vollständiges Handbuch der Mineralogie, Volume 2 Arnoldische Buchhandlung Dresden and Leipzig 332-334 [view file] |
|
Chukhrov F V, Gorshkov A I, Vitovskaya I V, Drits V A, Sivtsov A V, Rudnitskaya Y S (1982) Crystallographic nature of Co-Ni asbolan, International Geology Review, 24, 598-604 |
|
Fleischer M, Burns R G, Cabri L J, Francis C A, Pabst A (1982) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 67, 413-418 [view file] |
|
Llorca S (1988) New data on the composition and structure of asbolanes (New Caledonia), Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Série II, 307, 155-161 |
|
Manceau A, Gorshkov A I, Drits V A (1992) Structural chemistry of Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni in manganese hydrous oxides: Part II. Information from EXAFS spectroscopy and electron and X-ray diffraction, American Mineralogist, 77, 1144-1157 [view file] |
|
Gorshkov A I, Bogdanov Y A, Sivtsov A V, Mokhov A V (1996) A new Mg-Al-Ni asbolane, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR Earth Science Sections, 345, 230-234 [view file] |
|
Hazen R M, Hystad G, Golden J J, Hummer D R, Liu C, Downs R T, Morrison S M, Ralph J, Grew E S (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology, American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116 [view file] |
|
|