stewartite

stewartite

[′stü·ər‚tīt]
(geology)
A steel-gray, iron-containing variety of bort that has magnetic properties.
(mineralogy)
Mn3(DO)2·4H2O A brownish-yellow mineral composed of hydrous manganese phosphate occurring in minute crystals or fibrous tufts in pegmatites.
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Strunz claimed that Moore's "jahnsite" was xanthoxenite; a mineral that Clifford Frondel noted at the Palermo, New Hampshire pegmatite in 1949 was at first called xanthoxenite but later shown to be stewartite; later, phosphate pegmatites in New Hampshire and South Dakota, as studied by prominent mineralogists including Mary Mrose, Paul B.
Secondary phosphates found in the Stewart pegmatite include hureaulite, sicklerite, purpurite, heterosite, stewartite, and phosphosiderite.
Along with gem spodumene and tourmaline, Jahns and Wright (1951) list quartz, perthitic microdine, albite, beryl (morganite and aquamarine), bavenite, bertrandite, numerous bismuth-containing minerals including native bismuth, bismuthialte, bismutite, and bismite, and nurnerous phosphates including lithiophilite, triphylite, sickletite, purpurite, heterosite, stewartite, and hureaulite.