Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Massive talc band in dolomite-hydrothermal ore contact zone.
- Type locality
- Huanzala Mine
- Huanzala
- Huallanca District
- Bolognesi Province
- Ancash
- Peru
-9.8725°, -77.0030°
6recorded occurrences
Physical
- Transparency
- Transparent
Optical
- UV response
- Bluish
Crystallography
- Space group
- #12
- Cell parameters
- a = 4.703(2) Å · b = 5.689(1) Å · c = 4.941(1) Å
- Cell angles
- β = 90.72(2) °
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 1.210 : 1.051
- Type-locality form
Aggregates of minute crystals
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Huanzalaiet
- IMA2009-018
- Magnesiowolframite
In other languages
- German
- Huanzalait · IMA 2009-018
- Italian
- huanzalaite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.4.DB.30
- 4OxidesClass
- 4.DMetal: Oxygen = 1:2 and similarDivision
- 4.DBWith medium-sized cations; chains of edge-sharing octahedraGroup
- 4.DB.30HuanzalaiteSpecies
Dana
8th ed.04.04.16.04
- 04Simple OxidesClass
- 04.04AX2Type
- 04.04.16— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 04.04.16.04HuanzalaiteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1928Broch, Einar (1928) Über die Gitterart einiger monoklinen Verbindungen vom Typus MgWO4. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 1B (1). 409-421 doi:10.1515/zpch-1928-0131DOI: 10.1515/zpch-1928-0131
- 1969Kravchenko, V. B. (1969) Crystal structure of the monoclinic form of magnesium tungstate MgWO4. Journal of Structural Chemistry, 10 (1). 139-140 doi:10.1007/bf00751974DOI: 10.1007/bf00751974
- 1976Flor, Giorgio, Riccardi, Riccardo (1976) Kinetics of MgWO4 Formation in the Solid State Reaction between MgO and WO3. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, 31 (6). doi:10.1515/zna-1976-0616DOI: 10.1515/zna-1976-0616
- 1989RGUNTER, J, AMBERG, M (1989) “High-temperature” magnesium tungstate, MgWO4, prepared at moderate temperature. Solid State Ionics, 32. 141-146 doi:10.1016/0167-2738(89)90214-2DOI: 10.1016/0167-2738(89)90214-2
- 2007Ferenc, Štefan, Uher, Pavel (2007) Magnesian wolframite from hydrothermal quartz veins in the Rochovce granite exocontact, Ochtiná, Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen, 183 (2) 165-172 doi:10.1127/0077-7757/2007/0066DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2007/0066
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Huanzalaite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/huanzalaite-39553},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}