Where it forms, where it's found
- Geological setting
Hydrothermally altered urtite-like rock.
- Type locality
- Karnasurt Mountain
- Lovozersky District
- Murmansk Oblast
- Russia
67.8808°, 34.6817°
1recorded occurrences
Physical
Optical
- UV response
- 330 nm (LWUV): strong, orange; 245 nm (SWUV): weak, yellow-orange
PPL intrinsic colour; no change on stage rotation
XPL extinct at every orientation
Crystallography
- Space group
- #212
- Cell parameters
- a = 8.91462(7) Å
- Z
- 1
- Type-locality form
Isolated, anhedral equant grains, up to 5 mm in size.
Chemical composition
Synonyms
- Sapozhnikoviet
In other languages
- German
- IMA 2021-030 · Sapozhnikovit
Classification
Strunz
10th ed.9.FB
- 9SilicatesClass
- 9.FTektosilicates without zeolitic H2ODivision
- 9.FBTektosilicates with additional anionsGroup
- 9.FBSapozhnikoviteSpecies
Group, growth & confusion
- Bolotinaite(Na7◻)(Al6Si6O24)F · 4H2OMineral—
HaüyneNa3Ca(Si3Al3)O12(SO4)Mineral—
LazuriteNa7Ca(Al6Si6O24)(SO4)(S3)1- · H2OMineral—
NoseanNa8(Si6Al6)O24(SO4) · H2OMineral—- SlyudyankaiteNa28Ca4(Si24Al24O96)(SO4)6(S6)1/3(CO2) · 2H2OMineral—
SodaliteNa4(Si3Al3)O12ClMineral—
TsaregorodtseviteN(CH3)4Si4(SiAl)O12Mineral—
VladimirivanoviteNa6Ca2[Al6Si6O24](SO4,S3,S2,Cl)2 · H2OMineral—
Literature, links & citation
Citations
- 2021Miyawaki, Ritsuro, Hatert, Frédéric, Pasero, Marco, Mills, Stuart J. (2021) Newsletter 62. Mineralogical Magazine, 85 (4) 634-638 doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.62DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2021.62
- 2022(2022) Sapozhnikovite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America
- 2022Chukanov, Nikita V., Zubkova, Natalia V., Pekov, Igor V., Shendrik, Roman Yu., Varlamov, Dmitry A., Vigasina, Marina F., Belakovskiy, Dmitry I., Britvin, Sergey N., Yapaskurt, Vasiliy O., Pushcharovsky, Dmitry Yu. (2022) Sapozhnikovite, Na8(Al6Si6O24)(HS)2, a new sodalite-group mineral from the Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula. Mineralogical Magazine, 86 (1) 49-59 doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.94DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2021.94
- 2023Shchipalkina, Nadezhda V., Vereshchagin, Oleg S., Chukanov, Nikita V., Gorelova, Liudmila A., Bocharov, Vladimir N., Pekov, Igor V. (2023) High-temperature behavior of the UV-luminescent sodalite-type natural compound Na8(Al6Si6O24)(HS)2: Comparative study by in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 323. 124067 doi:10.1016/j.jssc.2023.124067DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2023.124067
- 2025Bogdanov, Aleksandr I.; Chukanov, Nikita V.; Shendrik, Roman Yu.; Pekov, Igor V. (2025) Spectroscopic Properties of Polysulfide Anions, Radical Anions, and Molecules: Ab Initio Calculations and Application to Minerals of the Sodalite and Cancrinite Groups. Minerals, 15 (11). 1207 doi:10.3390/min15111207DOI: 10.3390/min15111207
Cite this entry
@misc{mineral2026,
author = {Mineral Index editorial board},
title = {Sapozhnikovite — Mineral Index},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mineralindex.org/minerals/sapozhnikovite-55543},
note = {Accessed 2026-05-11}
}