Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Eureka mine
- Castell-estaó
- La Torre de Cabdella
- La Vall Fosca
- Pallars Jussà
- Lleida
- Catalonia
- Spain
42.3861°, 0.9575°
Safety & handling
Physical
Optical
- UV response
- Non-fluorescent
Crystallography
- Space group
- P63mc
- Cell parameters
- a = 5.254(2) Å · c = 13.450(5) Å
- Unit cell volume
- 321.5 ų
- Z
- 2
- Morphology
As coatings consisting of subhedral crystals; hexagonal platelets (up to ∼30 μm); Individual crystals: Tabular to lamellar habit and forming disordered aggregates.
- Type-locality form
As sparse coatings concisting of subhedral crystals not larger than 10 μm as well as larger hexagonal platelets up to ∼30 μm
- Comment
Note on the space group. The authors assumed the space group given by Krivovichev and Burns (2000) is correct and that the space group P31c given by Belokoneva et al. (2002) is incorrect, because "(...) application of the Addsym tool from the Platon program (Spek, 2009) indicates that the P31c structure has missing symmetries, which does not occur in the case of the P63mc structure." Belokoneva et al. (2002) give the unit-cell parameters a = 5.268(4) and c = 13.48(1) Å.
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Abellaiet
- Abellaitt
- IMA2014-111
- Unnamed (Na-Pb Carbonate-Hydroxide)
In other languages
- German
- Abellait · IMA 2014-111
- Spanish
- abellaíta
- Italian
- Abellaite
Classification
5.BE.X
- 5CarbonatesClass
- 5.BCarbonates with additional anions, without H2ODivision
- 5.BEWith Pb, BiGroup
- 5.BE.XAbellaiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
- 1995Blaß, Günter; Graf, Hans-Werner (1995) Neufunde von Schlackenhalden in der nördlichen Eifel (II) [New discoveries of slag heaps in the northern Eifel (II)]. Mineralien-Welt, 6 (3). 28-31
- 2000Krivovichev, S. V., Burns, P. C. (2000) Crystal chemistry of basic lead carbonates. III. Crystal structures of Pb3O2(CO3) and NaPb2(OH)(CO3)2. Mineralogical Magazine, 64 (6) 1077-1087 doi:10.1180/002646100549896DOI: 10.1180/002646100549896
- 2002Belokoneva, E. L., Al’-Ama, A. G., Dimitrova, O. V., Kurazhkovskaya, V. S., Stefanovich, S. Yu. (2002) Synthesis and crystal structure of new carbonate NaPb2(CO3)2(OH) Crystallography Reports, 47 (2) 217-222 doi:10.1134/1.1466495DOI: 10.1134/1.1466495
- 2014Kolitsch, U.; Rieck, B.; Brandstätter, F.; Schreiber, F.; Fabritz, K. H.; Blaß, G.; Gröbner, J. (2014) Neufunde aus dem altem Bergbau und den Schlacken von Lavrion (II). Mineralien-Welt, 25 (2). 82-95
- 2016Hålenius, U., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2016) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015 and 2016, CNMNC Newsletter No 29. Mineralogical Magazine, 80 (1) 199-205 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.080DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2016.080.080
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Abellaite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/abellaite-47008},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}