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stewartite Min.|ˈstjuːətaɪt|
[f. the name of the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego County, California, where it was found + -ite1.]
A hydrous basic phosphate of manganese and ferric iron, MnFe2(PO4)2(OH)2.8H2O, found as pleochroic orange-yellow to colourless triclinic crystals.
1912W. T. Schaller in Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. II. 143 Stewartite. Probably triclinic. A hydrous manganese phosphate from the Stewart Mine, after which it is named. 1975Neues Jahrb. für Mineralogie: Abhandl. CXXIII. 148 Laueite, pseudolaueite, and stewartite occur in a similar paragenesis which is confined to the late stage hydrothermal leaching and oxidation of primary triphylite-lithiophilite, Li(Fe,Mn)[PO4], in granitic pegmatites. |