asisite
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Asisite (Pb7SiO8Cl2) is a yellow tetragonal mineral, found at the Kombat Mine, Kombat, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. It was named for a farm, Asis, where the mine where it was found, is located. It was discovered in 1988.
Key facts
- Mineral.name
- Asisite
- Mineral.image
- Asisite - Kombat Mine, Namibia.jpg
- Mineral.imagesize
- 260px
- Mineral.caption
- Asisite from Kombat Mine, Namibia
- Mineral.category
- Halide
- Mineral.formula
- Pb7SiO4O4Cl2
- Mineral.strunz
- 3.DB.40
- Mineral.system
- Tetragonal Ditetragonal dipyramidal class
- Mineral.symmetry
- Tetragonal H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m 2/m) Space group: I4/mmm
- Mineral.colour
- yellow to yellow-green, red
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- Image
- Asisite - Kombat Mine, Namibia.jpg
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- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Ass
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 3.DB.40
- Commons category
- Asisite
- chemical formula
- Pb₇SiO₈Cl₂
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 3.DB.40
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Asisite (Pb7SiO8Cl2) is a yellow tetragonal mineral, found at the Kombat Mine, Kombat, Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia. It was named for a farm, Asis, where the mine where it was found, is located. It was discovered in 1988.
==References== Mindat.org - Asisite Webmineral.com - Asisite Handbook of Mineralogy - Asisite