• Home
• About Us
• Mineral Identification

Home > Pseudomorphs – March 10 > MS1766 Bindheimite (Oxyplumboroméite) after Bournonite

Bindheimite (Oxyplumboroméite) after Bournonite - Sold

• Oberzeiring
• Steiermark (Styria)
• Austria

• 4.2 × 3.2 × 2.9 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)

Bindhemite is a lead antimony oxide with pyrochlore crystal structure. In a massive nomenclature change of such minerals, the species bindheimite was discredited (Atencio et al., 2010). Later reconsideration that material once called bindheimite represnts a distinct mineral species, which corresponds to oxyplumboroméite (Christy & Atencio, 2013). This is a crude pseudomorph of bindheimite after a prismatic bournonite crystal, rising out of a wider crystal in parallel growth. Green spots of malachite are also present.