pinnoite
Sign in to savePinnoite is a magnesium borate mineral with formula: MgB2O(OH)6 or MgB2O4·3(H2O). It crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system and occurs as colorless to yellow or light green radial fibrous clusters and rarely as short prismatic crystals.
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- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 6.BB.05
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 6.BB.05
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- Pinnoite
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Pno
- chemical formula
- MgB₂O(OH)₆
- Strunz 8th edition (series ID, updated)
- Vc/B.10
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Pinnoite is a magnesium borate mineral with formula: MgB2O(OH)6 or MgB2O4·3(H2O). It crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system and occurs as colorless to yellow or light green radial fibrous clusters and rarely as short prismatic crystals.
Pinnoite was first described in 1884 for an occurrence in the Stassfurt potash deposit, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and named for the mine counselor Oberbergrat Pinno of Halle, Germany. It occurs in marine evaporite deposits and as efflorescence associated with mineral springs. It occurs with boracite and kaliborite. It also occurs in the borax mines of Death Valley in California, the Da Quidam saline lake of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau in Tibet and in Socacastro, Salta Province, Argentina.