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Ardealite

Cave Name:

Cioclovina Cave, Romania

Speleothems:

  • Powdery masses and aggregates

Frequency: Common

Other occurrence:

  • crusts (Baobab and Uisib Cave III, Namibia)

Location within cave:

  • Throughout the first 450 m of the cave

First description of cave occurrence:

  • Schadler, J. 1932. Ardealit, ein neues Mineral CaHPO4 CaSO4 +4H2O. Zentralblatt fur Mineralogie A: 40-41

First description of non-cave occurrence:

  • -

Other cave locations & References:

  • Crystal and Nootgedacht Caves (South Africa)

  • Magurata and Bacho Kuo Caves (Bulgaria)

  • La Guanguola Cave, Italy - Balenzano, F. et al. 1984. Ardealite, CaHPO4CaSO4·4H2O: a new occurence and new data. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Monatshefte: 461-467

  • Lighthouse Cave, San Salvador Island, Bahamas - Onac, B.P., Mylroie, J.E. & White, W.B. 2001. Mineralogy of cave deposits on San Salvador Islands, Bahamas. Carbonates and Evaporites 16(1): 8-16

Length: 1406

Depth: -65

Altitude: 770

Water: Yes

Type of rock:

  • Limestone

Age: Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous

Cave climate type: Seasonal bidirectional

IMA status: Approved

Group: Phosphates

Repository:

  • The Natural History Museum, London, England, UK: #1933-87

General info:

Related References:

  • Dumitras, D.G., Constantinescu, E., Marincea, S. & Bourgier, V. 2005. New data on ardealite from the type locality (the "Dry" Cioclovina Cave, Sureanu Mountains, Romania. Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Geological Society of Romania (GEO2005) (Rosia Montana): 31-36

  • Dumitras, D.G., Marincea, S., Bilal, E.& Constantinescu, E. 2011. Infrared spectroscopy of ardealite from the “type locality” Cioclovina Uscata Cave, Sureanu Mountains, Romania. 7th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy (ECMS 2011) Potsdam (abstract)

  • Dumitras, D.G. & Marincea, S. 2015. The crystal structure of ardealite from the “type locality”, the "Dry" Cioclovina Cave, Sureanu Mountains, Romania. 25th Goldschmidt Conference (Prague) (abstract)

Cited in Cave Minerals of the World:
[Hill, C.A. & Forti, P. 1997. Cave Minerals of the World (2nd ed.). National Speleological Society Huntsville, AL, 464 pp.]

  • Yes, page 164



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