gsminmag Mineralogical Magazine Mineralogical Magazine 0026-461X Mineralogical Society 10.1180/minmag.1992.056.383.07 Mineralogy The Zinc Analogue of Schulenbergite, from Ramsbeck, Germany Livingstone A. Jackson B. Davidson P. J. Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF 6 1992 56 383 215 219 1 9 1991 Copyright © 1992, The Mineralogical Society 1992 Abstract

A blue-green scaly coating on a slaty specimen from the Bastenberg mine, near Ramsbeck, Germany, yielded an X-ray powder pattern akin to schulenbergite. Chemically it is the zinc analogue of schulenbergite. Electron-probe data, XRF and ICP/OES analyses are presented which demonstrate two distinct zinc-rich compositions. Thermogravimetric analysis, together with CHN results, suggest the phase may contain 3–4 water molecules. Powder data are indexed on a hexagonal cell with a 8.293(2) Å, c 7.247(4) Å and cell volume 431.6(2) Å3, with Z = 1.