Hureaulite is a manganese phosphate with the formula . It was discovered in 1825 and named in 1826 for the type locality, Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. It is sometimes written as huréaulite, but the IMA does not recommend this for English language text.Burke, E. A. J. (2008): Tidying up Mineral Names: An IMA scheme for Suffixes, Hyphens and Diacritical Marks. Mineralogical Record, 39, 134
A complete series exists from lithiophilite, to triphylite, , including hureaulite, strengite, , stewartite, , and sicklerite, .Murdoch, Joseph (1943) Crystallography of Hureaulite. American Mineralogist 28: 19-24
Environment Hureaulite is a secondary mineral occurring in granite pegmatites. At the type locality it occurs in a zone of altered triphylite, , in pegmatite. Typically occurs very late in the sequence of formation of secondary phosphate minerals.Moore, P B, and Araki, T (1973) Hureaulite: its atomic arrangement. American Mineralogist 58: 302-307. Associated at the type locality with vivianite, ; rockbridgeite, ; heterosite, and cacoxenite, . It can be synthesised;Gerault, Y, Riou, A, and Cudennec, Y (1987) Acta Crystallographica (C) 43:1829 most natural hureaulites are Mn-rich compounds but extensive () solution is known for synthetic material.
Localities The type locality is Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. Hureaulite is also found in a granite pegmatite known for its phosphates in the Aimorés pegmatite district, at the Cigana claim in Galiléia, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formerly known as the Jocão Mine.
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