Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Frohsdorf
- Lanzenkirchen
- Wiener Neustadt-Land District
- Lower Austria
- Austria
47.7463°, 16.2542°
23recorded occurrences
Physical
- Colour
- Colorless when pure · grass-green when Fe(II)-bearing
Crystallography
- Space group
- C2/m
- Cell parameters
- a = 5.2141(5) Å · b = 9.0082(7) Å · c = 10.108(1) Å
- Cell angles
- β = 101.12(2) °
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 1.728 : 1.939
- Comment
Twin Creek formation, Wyoming
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Aluminoceladoniet
- Aluminoceladonitt
- Leucophyllit
- Leucophyllite
- Leukophyllite
- Mg-Al Celadonite
- Mg-Al Seladonit
In other languages
- French
- Aluminocéladonite
- German
- Aluminoseladonit · Leucophyllit · Leukophyllit
- Spanish
- Aluminoceladonita
- Italian
- aluminoceladonite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.EC.15
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.EPhyllosilicatesDivision
- 9.ECPhyllosilicates with mica sheets, composed of tetrahedral and octahedral netsGroup
- 9.EC.15AluminoceladoniteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1972Vendel, M. (1972) Über die Genese der "Leukophyllite". TMPM Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 17 (2) 76-100 doi:10.1007/bf01081453DOI: 10.1007/bf01081453
- 1997Pavese, Alessandro, Ferraris, Giovanni, Prencipe, Mauro, Ibberson, Richard (1997) Cation site ordering in phengite 3T from the Dora-Maira massif (western Alps): a variable-temperature neutron powder diffraction study. European Journal of Mineralogy, 9 (6) 1183-1190 doi:10.1127/ejm/9/6/1183DOI: 10.1127/ejm/9/6/1183
- 1998Rieder, M., Cavazzini, G., D’Yakonov, Y.S., Frank-Kamenetskii, V.A., Gottardt, G., Guggenheim, S., Koval, P.V., Muller, G., Neiva, A.M.R., Radoslovich, E.W., Robert, J.L., Sassi, F.P., Takeda, H., Weiss, Z., Wones, D.R. (1998) Nomenclature of the micas. The Canadian Mineralogist, 36 (3) 905-912
- 2009Murao, R., Yubuta, K., Miyawaki, R. and Sugiyama, K. (2009): Analysis of aluminoceladonite included in green heulandite. JAKOKA: 2009 Annual Meeting of the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, abs. R4-11, p. 105.
- 2010Drits, V. A., Zviagina, B. B., McCarty, D. K., Salyn, A. L. (2010) Factors responsible for crystal-chemical variations in the solid solutions from illite to aluminoceladonite and from glauconite to celadonite. American Mineralogist, 95 (2) 348-361 doi:10.2138/am.2010.3300 DOI: 10.2138/am.2010.3300
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Aluminoceladonite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/aluminoceladonite-6795},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}