Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Small cavities and veins in altered spurrite marbles
- Type locality
- Khurayyim Mount (Jabal al Khurayyim)
- Daba-Siwaqa complex
- Transjordan Plateau
- Amman Governorate
- Jordan
31.5902°, 36.1734°
1recorded occurrences
Physical
Crystallography
- Space group
- P21/c
- Cell parameters
- a = 11.2450(8) Å · b = 9.0963(5) Å · c = 14.068(1) Å
- Cell angles
- β = 113.237(8) °
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 0.809 : 1.251
- Z
- 2
- Type-locality form
Spherulitic aggregates up to 200-300 μm in size. Individual elongated platy crystals in spherules are nearly 50 μm long and up to 10 μm thick.
- Comment
by Synchrotron Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Khurayyimiet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 2018-140 · Khurayyimit
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.BK.05
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.BSorosilicatesDivision
- 9.BKUnclassified sorosilicatesGroup
- 9.BK.05KhurayyimiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 2019Galuskina, I. O., Krüger, B., Galuskin, E. V., Vapnik, Y., & Murashko, M. (2019). A New Mineral Khurayyimite, Ca7. 07Zn3. 89Si4. 02O14 (OH) 10 4H2O, from Daba Siwaqa Pyrometamorphic Rock, Jordan. In XIX International Meeting on Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Minerals (pp. 78-78).
- 2019Galuskina, I.O., Krüger, B., Galuskin, E.V., Vapnik, Y., Murashko, M. (2019) A New Mineral Khurayyimite, Ca7.07Zn3.89Si4.02O14(OH)10·4H2O, from Daba Siwaqa Pyrometamorphic Rock, Jordan. In XIX International Meeting on Crystal Chemistry, X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy of Minerals: 78-78.
- 2019Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Hatert, Frédéric, Pasero, Marco, Mills, Stuart J. (2019) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2019. CNMNC Newsletter No 48. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (2) 315-317 doi:10.1180/mgm.2019.23DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2019.23
- 2022(2022) Khurayyimite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
- 2023link.springer.com (n.d.) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00710-022-00804-z
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Khurayyimite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/khurayyimite-53413},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}