Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Surface of fumaroles on the Eldfell volcano, Heimaey Island, Iceland
- Type locality
- Eldfell Volcano
- Heimaey Island
- Vestmannaeyjar archipelago (Westman islands)
- Vestmannaeyjar
- Southern Region
- Iceland
63.4336°, -20.2489°
Crystallography
- Space group
- R-3
- Cell parameters
- a = 4.9817(4) Å · c = 12.387(1) Å
- Unit cell volume
- 266.23 ų
- Z
- 6
- Type-locality form
Sub-micron-sized crystals forming a white powder.
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- IMA2012-088
- Oskarssoniet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 2012-088 · Oskarssonit
- Italian
- oskarssonite
Classification
3.A0
- 3HalidesClass
- 3.ASimple halides, without H2ODivision
- 3.A0— unnamed intermediate level —Group
- 3.A0OskarssoniteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
Literature, links & citation
- 1988Rosenberg, P.E. (1988) Aluminum fluoride hydrates, volcanogenic salts from Mount Erebus, Antarctica. American Mineralogist: 73: 855-860.
- 1990Daniel, P., Bulou, A., Rousseau, M., Nouet, J., Fourquet, J.L., Leblance, M., Burriel, R. (1990) A study of the structural phase transitions in AlF3: x-ray powder diffraction, DSC and Raman scattering investigations of the lattice dynamics and phonon spectrum. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter: 2: 5663-5677.
- 2013Williams, P. A., Hatert, F., Pasero, M., Mills, S. J. (2013) New minerals and nomenclature modifications approved in 2013. CNMNC Newsletter No 16. Mineralogical Magazine, 77 (6) 2695-2709 doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.6.01DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2013.077.6.01
- 2014Jacobsen, M. J., Balić -Žunić, T., Mitolo, D., Katerinopoulou, A., Garavelli, A., Jakobsson, S. P. (2014) Oskarssonite, AlF3, a new fumarolic mineral from Eldfell volcano, Heimaey, Iceland. Mineralogical Magazine, 78 (1) 215-222 doi:10.1180/minmag.2014.078.1.15 DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2014.078.1.15
- 2014Belakovskiy, D.; Camara, F.; Uvarova, Y.; Gagne, O. C. (2014) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 99 (8). 1806-1813 doi:10.2138/am.2014.650DOI: 10.2138/am.2014.650
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Oskarssonite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/oskarssonite-43853},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}