Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Shocked meteorite
- Type locality
- Zagami Martian meteorite
- Faskari
- Katsina
- Nigeria
11.7333°, 7.0833°
1recorded occurrences
Physical
- Transparency
- Transparent
- Density
- 3.975 g/cm³
Crystallography
- Space group
- I4/m
- Cell parameters
- a = 9.14(4) Å · c = 2.74(2) Å
- Type-locality form
15 micron aggregates
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA2013-128
- KAlSi3O8-hollandite
- Liebermanniet
- UM1994-27-SiO:AlK
In other languages
- German
- IMA 2013-128 · Liebermannit
- Italian
- liebermannite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.FA.70
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.FTektosilicates without zeolitic H2ODivision
- 9.FATektosilicates without additional non-tetrahedral anionsGroup
- 9.FA.70LiebermanniteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 2000Langenhorst, F. and Poirier, J.-P. (2000) ‘Eclogitic’ minerals in a shocked basaltic meteorite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters: 176: 259-265.
- 2014Williams, P. A., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2014) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2014, CNMNC Newsletter No 20. Mineralogical Magazine, 78 (3) 549-558 doi:10.1180/minmag.2014.078.3.05DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2014.078.3.05
- 2015Ma, C., Tschauner, O., Beckett, J.R., Rossman, G.R. (2015) Liebermannite: A new potassic hollandite (KAlSi3O8) from the Zagami basaltic shergottite. 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 1401.
- 2018Ma, Chi, Tschauner, Oliver, Beckett, John R., Rossman, George R., Prescher, Clemens, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Bechtel, Hans A., MacDowell, Alastair (2018) Liebermannite, KAlSi3 O8 , a new shock-metamorphic, high-pressure mineral from the Zagami Martian meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53 (1) 50-61 doi:10.1111/maps.13000DOI: 10.1111/maps.13000
- 2022(2022) Liebermannite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Liebermannite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/liebermannite-45898},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}

