Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Copper-nickel mineralization in Archaean greenstone.
- Type locality
- Carr Boyd Rocks Ni mine
- Menangina Station
- Menzies Shire
- Western Australia
- Australia
-30.0668°, 121.6269°
4recorded occurrences
Physical
Optical
- Optical type
- Isotropic
- Surface relief
- Moderate
- Principal indices
- n 1.593
PPL intrinsic colour; no change on stage rotation
XPL extinct at every orientation
- Single index
- n = 1.593
Crystallography
- Type-locality form
Coatings, either powdery or with the appearance of desiccated gel.
- Comment
Amorphous
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Georgeiet
In other languages
- German
- Georgeit · IMA 1977-004
- Italian
- Georgeite
- Chinese
- 水羟碳铜石
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.5.BA.10
- 5CarbonatesClass
- 5.BCarbonates with additional anions, without H2ODivision
- 5.BAWith Cu, Co, Ni, Zn, Mg, MnGroup
- 5.BA.10GeorgeiteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.16a.03.03.01
- 16aAnhydrous Carbonates Containing Hydroxyl or HalogenClass
- 16a.03(AB)2(XO3)ZqType
- 16a.03.03— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 16a.03.03.01GeorgeiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1979Fleischer, Michael, Burns, Roger G., Cabri, Louis J., Chao, George Y., Hogarth, D. D., Pabst, Adolf (1979) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 64 (11-12) 1329-1334
- 1979Bridge, P. J., Just, J., Hey, M. H. (1979) Georgeite, a new amorphous copper carbonate from the Carr Boyd Mine, Western Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 43 (325) 97-98 doi:10.1180/minmag.1979.043.325.04 DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1979.043.325.04
- 1991Pollard, A. M., Thomas, R. G., Williams, P. A., Just, J., Bridge, P. J. (1991) The synthesis and composition of georgeite and its reactions to form other secondary copper(II) carbonates. Mineralogical Magazine, 55 (379) 163-166 doi:10.1180/minmag.1991.055.379.03 DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1991.055.379.03
- 2005(2005) Georgeite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
- 2016Kondrat, Simon A., Smith, Paul J., Wells, Peter P., Chater, Philip A., Carter, James H., Morgan, David J., Fiordaliso, Elisabetta M., Wagner, Jakob B., Davies, Thomas E., Lu, Li, Bartley, Jonathan K., Taylor, Stuart H., Spencer, Michael S., Kiely, Christopher J., Kelly, Gordon J., Park, Colin W., Rosseinsky, Matthew J., Hutchings, Graham J. (2016) Stable amorphous georgeite as a precursor to a high-activity catalyst. Nature, 531 (7592). 83-87 doi:10.1038/nature16935DOI: 10.1038/nature16935
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Georgeite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/georgeite-1676},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}