TY - JOUR
T1 - Tin weathering experiment set by nature for 300 years: natural crystals ofthe anthropogenic mineral hydroromarchite from Creussen, Bavaria, Germany
AU - Doubrovinckaia, Natalia
AU - Messingschlager, Maria
AU - Dubrovinsky, Leonid
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Hydroromarchite is a mineral that so far has been found only in afew locations in the world and recognized as a common product of submarinecorrosion of pewter artefacts. Here we report a new locality for this raremineral found at the Saint James Church archaeological site in Creussen,Germany. There it appeared to be a product of weathering of a tin artefact(a tin button) buried in soil of the churchyard for about 300 years. Themineral, found in paragenesis with romarchite and cassiterite, wasidentified using single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
AB - Hydroromarchite is a mineral that so far has been found only in afew locations in the world and recognized as a common product of submarinecorrosion of pewter artefacts. Here we report a new locality for this raremineral found at the Saint James Church archaeological site in Creussen,Germany. There it appeared to be a product of weathering of a tin artefact(a tin button) buried in soil of the churchyard for about 300 years. Themineral, found in paragenesis with romarchite and cassiterite, wasidentified using single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
UR - https://res.slu.se/id/publ/120159
U2 - 10.5194/ejm-34-563-2022
DO - 10.5194/ejm-34-563-2022
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0935-1221
VL - 34
SP - 563
EP - 572
JO - European Journal of Mineralogy
JF - European Journal of Mineralogy
IS - 6
ER -