Where it forms, where it's found
- Type locality
- Arsenatnaya fumarole
- Second scoria cone
- Northern Breakthrough (North Breach)
- Great Fissure eruption (Main Fracture)
- Tolbachik Volcanic field
- Milkovsky District
- Kamchatka Krai
- Russia
55.6833°, 160.2333°
1recorded occurrences
Safety & handling
Crystallography
- Space group
- C2/c
- Cell parameters
- a = 12.504(1) Å · b = 12.7823(5) Å · c = 6.7214(6) Å
- Cell angles
- β = 114.01(1) °
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 1.022 : 0.538
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA2025-007
- Leyboviet-K
In other languages
- German
- IMA 2025-007 · Leybovit-K
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.8.BC.05
- 8Phosphates, Arsenates, VanadatesClass
- 8.BPhosphates, etc., with additional anions, without H2ODivision
- 8.BCWith only medium-sized cations, (OH, etc.):RO4 > 1:1 and < 2:1Group
- 8.BC.05Leybovite-KSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- —Koshlyakova, N.N., Pekov, I.V., Agakhanov, A.A., Bullock, E., Burns, P.C., Belakovskiy, D.I., Zubkova, N.V., Vigasina, M.F., Britvin, S.N., Hazen, R.M. and Zhitova, E.S. (2025) Leybovite-K, IMA 2025-007. CNMNC Newsletter 86, Mineralogical Magazine, 89,
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Leybovite-K — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/leybovite-k-488770},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}