Strontiofluorite
General
CategoryHalide mineral
Formula
(repeating unit)
SrF2
IMA symbolSflr[1]
Strunz classification3.AB.25
Identification
ColorPale gray
Mohs scale hardness4
LusterGreasy
References[2]

Strontiofluorite is a halide mineral that contains the alkali earth metal strontium and the halogen fluorine, a form of strontium fluoride. It can be considered a strontium-analogue of fluorite, which contains calcium as the dominant cation instead.

It is translucent and pale gray in colour.

It appears as cubo-octahedral crystals up to a size of 0.5 mm.

It is found in association with astrophyllite, burbankite, chlorbartonite, fluorapatite, fluorite, lamprophyllite, polezhaevaite-(Ce) and villiaumite.

References

  1. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical Magazine. 85 (3): 291–320. Bibcode:2021MinM...85..291W. doi:10.1180/mgm.2021.43. S2CID 235729616.
  2. "Strontiofluorite: Strontiofluorite mineral information and data". mindat.org. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
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