{{Short description|Hydrous carbonate mineral}} {{Infobox mineral |name=Abellaite |image=File:Abellaite-738453.jpg |alt= |caption=White abellaite crystals from the Eureka mine, in Catalonia |category=Carbonate mineral |formula=NaPb<sub>2</sub>(CO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(OH) |IMAsymbol=Abe<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3|pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43|bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W|s2cid=235729616|doi-access=free}}</ref> |strunz= |dana= |system=Hexagonal |class=6mm - Dihexagonal-pyramidal|symmetry=''P31c'' (no. 159) |unit cell= |color=colorless to white |colour= |habit= |twinning= |cleavage= |fracture= |tenacity= |mohs= |luster= |streak= |diaphaneity= |gravity= |density= |polish= |opticalprop= |refractive= |birefringence= |pleochroism= |2V= |dispersion= |extinction= |length fast/slow= |fluorescence= |absorption= |melt= |fusibility= |diagnostic= |solubility= |impurities= |alteration= |other= |prop1= |prop1text= |references=<ref name=EJM>{{Cite journal|last=Ibáñez-Insa|first=Jordi|display-authors=et al|date=2017-12-01|title=Abellaite, NaPb2 (CO3)2 (OH), a new supergene mineral from the Eureka mine, Lleida province, Catalonia, Spain|url=http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/ejm/detail/29/88297/Abellaite_NaPb2_CO32_OH_a_new_supergene_mineral_from_the_Eureka_mine_Lleida_province_Catalonia_Spain|journal=European Journal of Mineralogy|language=en|volume=29|issue=5|pages=915–922|doi=10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2630|bibcode=2017EJMin..29..915I|hdl=2445/126204|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Belokoneva |first1=E. L. |last2=Al'-Ama |first2=A. G. |last3=Dimitrova |first3=O. V. |last4=Kurazhkovskaya |first4=V. S. |last5=Stefanovich |first5=S. Yu. |title=Synthesis and crystal structure of new carbonate NaPb2(CO3)2(OH) |journal=Crystallography Reports |date=March 2002 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=217–222 |doi=10.1134/1.1466495|bibcode=2002CryRp..47..217B |s2cid=96247651 }}</ref> }} '''Abellaite''' is a hydrous carbonate mineral discovered in the abandoned Eureka uranium mine in the village of La Torre de Capdella (Lleida province), Catalonia, Spain. The ideal chemical formula of abellaite is NaPb<sub>2</sub>(CO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(OH). It is named in honor of Joan Abella i Creus, a Catalan gemmologist who has long studied minerals from the Eureka mine and first found abellaite in the mine.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rock-hounds-are-hunt-new-carbon-minerals|title=Rock hounds are on the hunt for new carbon minerals|last=Perkins|first=Sid|date=2017-05-02|work=Science News|access-date=2017-09-04|language=en}}</ref> A team composed, among others, by Jordi Ibáñez-Insa from the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (CSIC) and by Joan Viñals and Xavier Llovet from the University of Barcelona, identified and characterized the mineral's structure and chemical composition.<ref name="EJM" />
Abellaite crystals are colorless to white, with a glassy or pearly appearance, and are easily crumbled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-47008.html|title=Abellaite: Abellaite mineral information and data.|website=www.mindat.org|access-date=2017-09-04}}</ref> The mineral has a known synthetic analogue and is chemically similar to sanrománite. Robert Hazen et al. predicted its existence in 2015.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hazen|first1=Robert M.|last2=Hummer|first2=Daniel R.|last3=Hystad|first3=Grethe|last4=Downs|first4=Robert T.|last5=Golden|first5=Joshua J.|date=2016-04-01|title=Carbon mineral ecology: Predicting the undiscovered minerals of carbon|url=http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/content/101/4/889|journal=American Mineralogist|language=en|volume=101|issue=4|pages=889–906|doi=10.2138/am-2016-5546|bibcode=2016AmMin.101..889H|s2cid=741788|issn=0003-004X|url-access=subscription|doi-access=free}}</ref>
== Localities == Catalonia, Spain: Eureka mine, Castell-estaó, La Torre de Cabdella, La Vall Fosca, El Pallars Jussà, Lleida, Catalonia
Russia: Yubileinaya pegmatite, Karnasurt Mt, Lovozero Massif, Murmanskaya Oblast', Northern Region
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Category:Carbonate minerals Category:Trigonal minerals Category:Minerals in space group 159
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