Haggertyite

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| name = Haggertyite

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| category = Oxide mineral

| formula = Ba(Fe2+6Ti5Mg)O19

| IMAsymbol = Hgt{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3|pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43|bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W|s2cid=235729616|doi-access=free}}

| strunz = 4.CC.45

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| system = Hexagonal

| class = Dihexagonal dipyramidal (6/mmm)
H-M symbol: (6/m 2/m 2/m)

| symmetry = P63/mmc

| unit cell = a = 5.926, c = 23.32 [Å]; Z = 2

| color = Gray

| habit = Microscopic hexagonal platelets

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| mohs = 5

| luster = Metallic

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| diaphaneity = Opaque

| gravity = 4.87 (calculated)

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| references = [http://www.mindat.org/min-6984.html Haggertyite on Mindat.org][http://webmineral.com/data/Haggertyite.shtml#.Uu-7nj3MRVY Haggertyite data on Webmineral]

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Haggertyite is a rare barium, iron, magnesium, titanate mineral: Ba(Fe2+6Ti5Mg)O19 first described in 1996 from the Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro in Pike County, Arkansas. The microscopic metallic mineral crystallizes in the hexagonal system and forms tiny hexagonal plates associated with richterite and serpentinitized olivine of mafic xenoliths in the lamproite host rock. It is an iron(II) rich member of the magnetoplumbite group. It is a light grey opaque mineral with calculated Mohs hardness of 5.

It was named for geophysicist Stephen E. Haggerty (born 1938) of the Florida International University.

References

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  • Grey, I. E., Danielle Velde, and A. J. Criddle, 1998, Haggertyite, a new magnetoplumbite-type titanate mineral from the Prairie Creek (Arkansas) lamproite: American Mineralogist, v. 83, p. 1323-1329 [http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/11-12_Part_1/1323 Am. Min. abstract]

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Category:Barium minerals

Category:Titanium minerals

Category:Magnesium minerals

Category:Iron(II) minerals

Category:Oxide minerals

Category:Hexagonal minerals

Category:Minerals in space group 194

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