scorzalite Min.
(ˈskɔːzəlaɪt)
[f. the name of E. P. Scorza (b. 1899), Brazilian mineralogist + -ite1.]
A basic phosphate of aluminium, ferrous iron, and magnesium, (Fe2+,Mg)Al2(PO4)2(OH)2, that forms an isomorphous series with lazulite and occurs in masses of brittle, blue, monoclinic crystals.
| 1947 Pecora & Fahey in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LVIII. 1217 The new minerals are named in honour of Dr. Evarists Scorza and Dr. Antonio José Alves de Souza... Scorzalite is a massive, blue hydrous iron magnesium aluminum phosphate. 1949 Amer. Mineralogist XXXIV. 83 The Corrego Frio pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil,..has yielded three new phosphate minerals since its discovery in 1942. Two of these new minerals, scorzalite and souzalite, are described in this paper. 1975 Fortschritte der Mineral. LII. Suppl. 288 Scorzalite from the Angarf-Sud pegmatite [in Morocco] is always observed intimately associated with muscovite. |