Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Efflorescence in an evaporite deposit mine.
- Type locality
- Niedersachsen potash mine
- Wathlingen
- Celle District
- Lower Saxony
- Germany
52.5247°, 10.1378°
5recorded occurrences
Physical
- Density
- 2.21 g/cm³
Crystallography
- Space group
- P21 21 21
- Cell parameters
- a = 8.8932(1) Å · b = 8.4881(1) Å · c = 12.4402(2) Å
- Ratio a:b:c
- 1 : 0.954 : 1.399
- Z
- 8
- Type-locality form
Efflorescences on kieserite.
- Comment
On synthetic material
Crystal structure
Chemical composition
In other languages
- French
- sandérite
- German
- Sanderit
- Italian
- Sanderite
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.7.CB.07
- 7SulfatesClass
- 7.CSulfates (selenates, etc.) without additional anions, with H2ODivision
- 7.CBWith only medium-sized cationsGroup
- 7.CB.07SanderiteSpecies
CIM
—25.3.2
- 25SulphatesClass
- 25.3Sulphates of MgGroup
- 25.3.2SanderiteSpecies
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 1952Fleischer, M. (1952) New mineral names. American Mineralogist, 37 (11-12). 1070-1074
- 1952Berdesinki, W. (1952) Sanderite, leonhardtite, allenite and hexahydrite, new minerals of marine salts deposits. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie-Monatshefte, 28–29.
- 1967Kali und Steinsalz 4 (1967): 326.
- 2009Ma, H., Bish, D. L., Wang, H.-W., Chipera, S. J. (2009) Determination of the crystal structure of sanderite, MgSO4·2H2O, by X-ray powder diffraction and the charge flipping method. American Mineralogist, 94 (4) 622-625 doi:10.2138/am.2009.3110 DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3110
- 2014Lopez-Reyes, G., Sobron, P., Lefebvre, C., Rull, F. (2014) Multivariate analysis of Raman spectra for the identification of sulfates: Implications for ExoMars. American Mineralogist, 99 (8) 1570-1579 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4724DOI: 10.2138/am.2014.4724
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Sanderite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/sanderite-3519},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}