Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Efflorescence growing directly on weathered uraninite in the mining adit
- Type locality
- Svornost Mine
- Jáchymov
- Karlovy Vary District
- Karlovy Vary Region
- Czech Republic
50.3725°, 12.9114°
3recorded occurrences
Radioactivity
Physical
- Colour
- Golden yellow
Optical
- Tropism
- Anisotropic
Crystallography
- Space group
- I41/acd
- Cell parameters
- a = 35.401(9) Å · c = 48.157(13) Å
- Unit cell volume
- 59245 ų
- Type-locality form
Ewingite forms aggregates of golden-yellow crystals as large as 0.2 mm in diameter
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA2016-012
In other languages
- French
- ewingite
- German
- Ewingit · IMA 2016-012
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.5.EC.15
- 5CarbonatesClass
- 5.EUranyl CarbonatesDivision
- 5.ECUO2:CO3 < 1:1 - 1:2Group
- 5.EC.15EwingiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 2016Hålenius, U., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2016) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2016, CNMNC Newsletter no 31. Mineralogical Magazine, 80 (4) 691-697 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.083DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2016.080.083
- 2017Olds, T. A., Plášil, J., Kampf, A. R., Simonetti, A., Sadergaski, L. R., Chen, Y.-S. and Burns, P. C. (2017) Ewingite: Earth’s most complex mineral. Geology, 45, 11, 1007–1010.
- 2020(2020) Ewingite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Ewingite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/ewingite-47791},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}