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Phosphate

Bolivarite

Al₂(PO₄)(OH)₃·4H₂O
ClassPhosphate
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Bolivarite specimen

:Locality: Dedestapolcsany, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary Size: 2.6 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm Description: Bolivarite is a very rare aluminium phosphate, related to evansite. In this specimen white bolivarite is filling vugs of a limonite matrix. This mineral was found as crusts and as a filling of cracks in some granitic rocks a few km from Pontevedra (Spain), on the road to Campo Lameiro. Its discoverers, Fernandez Navarro and Castro Barea, named it as a tribute to the eminent Spanish entomologist, exiled in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War, Ignacio Bolivar y Urrutia. — Photo: Joan Rosell , from rosellminerals.com · CC BY-SA 4.0

Bolivarite

Bolivarite is an IMA-recognized mineral species in the phosphate class, with the chemical formula Al₂(PO₄)(OH)₃·4H₂O.

IMA symbol Bva, IMA status: questionable, named in 1921.

Index entry. This entry combines official IMA/RRUFF species data with published physical-property data — a full written entry hasn’t been published yet. Browse more B minerals or help write this entry.