Sinjarite, a new mineral from Iraq

• Main Authors: Zeki A. Aljubouri, Salim, M. Aldabbagh
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: TLIR K E Y; Torii; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.626.6187; http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_43/43-329-643.pdf

SUMMARY. A hygroscopic, soft, pink mineral was dis-covered in Sinjar town, west of Mosul city. Wet chemical and X-ray diffraction analyses proved that the mineral has a composition ofcalcium chloride dihydrate CaCI2. 2H20, which has not been known in nature before. It is therefore a new mineral, and is named sinjarite after its locality. CALCIUM chloride hexahydrate has been found occurring naturally in Victoria Land, Antarctica, and named antarcticite (Torii and Ossaka, I975), and Hausmann (I813) described a hydrated cal-cium chloride occurring on gypsum from the bora-cite deposits of Liineburg, Germany, but it was not analysed. Anhydrous calcium chloride is largely used as a