Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
In veins of paralava cutting gehlenite-flamite hornfels located in the Gurim Anticline in the Negev Desert, Israel.
- Type locality
- Gurim anticline
- Hatrurim Basin
- Tamar Regional Council
- Beersheba Subdistrict
- Southern District
- Israel
31.1500°, 35.2833°
3recorded occurrences
Physical
Optical
- Optical type
- Uniaxial
- Pleochroism
- Non-pleochroic
Crystallography
- Space group
- P63/mcm
- Cell parameters
- a = 5.292 Å · c = 15.557(2) Å
- Type-locality form
In oval polymineralic inclusions in paralava, as elongate crystals <10 μm thick
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA2015-045
In other languages
- German
- Hexacelsian · IMA 2015-045
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.FA
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.FTektosilicates without zeolitic H2ODivision
- 9.FATektosilicates without additional non-tetrahedral anionsGroup
- 9.FAHexacelsianSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1976Müller, W. F. (1976) On Polymorphism of BaAl2Si2O8. In Electron Microscopy in Mineralogy. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p.354-360. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-66196-9_27DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-66196-9_27
- 2015Hålenius, U., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2015) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2015, CNMNC Newsletter No 27. Mineralogical Magazine, 79 (5). 1223-1230 doi:10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.16DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2015.079.5.16
- 2017Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Prusik, Krystian, Stasiak, Marta, Dzierżanowski, Piotr, Murashko, Mikhail (2017) Gurimite, Ba3(VO4)2 and hexacelsian, BaAl2Si2O8 – two new minerals from schorlomite-rich paralava of the Hatrurim Complex, Negev Desert, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 1009-1019 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.147 DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2016.080.147
- 2018(2018) Hexacelsian. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Hexacelsian — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/hexacelsian-46796},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}