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Ye'elimite is a calcium aluminium sulfate mineral that forms cubic crystals up to 15 μm in size. It is colorless and semitransparent with an isotropic structure and hardness that has not been determined. Ye'elimite decomposes in water to form ettringite and aluminum hydroxide. It is found in a metamorphic rock assemblage above 900°C in cobbles from Israel, associated with larnite, brownmillerite, and sulfatian-phosphatian fluorapatite.

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Ye'elimite is a calcium aluminium sulfate mineral that forms cubic crystals up to 15 μm in size. It is colorless and semitransparent with an isotropic structure and hardness that has not been determined. Ye'elimite decomposes in water to form ettringite and aluminum hydroxide. It is found in a metamorphic rock assemblage above 900°C in cobbles from Israel, associated with larnite, brownmillerite, and sulfatian-phosphatian fluorapatite.

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Ye’elimite Ca4 Al6 O12 (SO4 )

c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1

Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 432. Crystals, to 15 µm, in aggregates.

Physical Properties: Hardness = n.d. D(meas.) = n.d. D(calc.) = 2.61 Decomposes in


H2 O to give ettringite and Al(OH)3 .

Optical Properties: Semitransparent. Color: Colorless.


Optical Class: Isotropic. n = 1.568(2)

Cell Data: Space Group: I41 32 (synthetic). a = 18.392 Z = 16

X-ray Powder Pattern: Hatrurim Formation, Israel.


3.754 (100), 2.909 (15), 3.915 (10), 6.52 (4)

Chemistry: (1) (2)


SO3 14.54 13.12
Al2 O3 47.84 50.12
Fe2 O3 1.04
CaO 36.56 36.76
Total 99.98 100.00
(1) Hatrurim Formation, Israel; by electron microprobe, average of two analyses, total Fe as
Fe2 O3 ; corresponds to Ca3.98 (Al5.71 Fe0.08 )Σ=5.79 O12 (S1.11 O4 ). (2) Ca4 Al6 O12 (SO4 ).

Occurrence: In a high-temperature (> 900 ◦ C) metamorphic assemblage in cobbles in a


pseudo-conglomerate.

Association: Larnite, brownmillerite, sulfatian-phosphatian fluorapatite.

Distribution: In the lower part of the Hatrurim Formation, west of the Dead Sea, Israel.

Name: For Har Ye’elim and Nahal Ye’elim, the most conspicuous hill and wadi in the Hatrurim
Basin, Israel.

Type Material: Geochemistry Department, Geological Survey of Israel; Department of


Geology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 62815.

References: (1) Gross, S. (1984) Occurrence of ye’elimite and ellestadite in an unusual cobble
from the “pseudo-conglomerate” of the Hatrurim Basin, Israel. Geol. Surv. Israel, Current
Research 1983–84, 1–4. (2) (1987) Amer. Mineral., 72, 226–227 (abs. ref. 1).

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