{{Infobox mineral | name = Zinclipscombite | boxwidth = | boxbgcolor = | image = Zinclipscombite-104316.jpg | imagesize = 260px | alt = | caption = Zinclipscombite: Pale green balls and crystal clusters. Silver Coin Mine, Valmy, Iron Point District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, US | category = Phosphate mineral | formula = Zn(Fe<sup>3+</sup>)<sub>2</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub> | molweight = 386.04&nbsp;g/mol | IMAsymbol = Zlcb<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 = 8.BB.90 | dana = 41.10.02.02 | system = Tetragonal | class = Trapezohedral (422) <br/>H-M symbol: (4 2 2) | symmetry = ''P''4<sub>3</sub>2<sub>1</sub>2 | unit cell = a = 7.242, c = 13.125&nbsp;[Å]; Z&nbsp;=&nbsp;4 | color = Dark green to brown | colour = | habit = | twinning = | cleavage = None | fracture = Brittle | tenacity = | mohs = 5 | luster = Vitreous | streak = Light green to tan | diaphaneity = Translucent | gravity = 3.65 | density = | polish = | opticalprop = Uniaxial | refractive = n<sub>ω</sub> = 1.755, n<sub>ε</sub> = 1.795 | birefringence = 0.0400 | pleochroism = | 2V = | dispersion = | extinction = | length fast/slow = | fluorescence = | absorption = | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | impurities = | alteration = | other = | prop1 = | prop1text = | references = <ref name=Mindat>[http://www.mindat.org/min-29136.html Mindat]</ref><ref name=Webmin>[http://www.webmineral.com/data/Zinclipscombite.shtml WebMineral]</ref> }}

'''Zinclipscombite''' is a dark-green to brown zinc iron phosphate mineral with the formula Zn(Fe<sup>3+</sup>)<sub>2</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub>.<ref name=Mindat/><ref name=Webmin/> It occurs as fibrous spheres and exhibits tetragonal crystal structure.<ref name=Mindat/>

In the classification of non-silicate minerals zinclipscombite is in the lipscombite group, which also includes lipscombite.

==Discovery==

The mineral zinclipscombite was discovered and named by Chukanov, Pekov, Möckel, Zadov, and Dubinchuk <ref name=Chukanov-GoOD/><ref name=Chukanov2006/> from a sample from the Silver Coin mine, Edna Mountain, Valmy, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. The new mineral name was approved in 2006 by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, International Mineralogical Association.

==References==

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<ref name=Chukanov-GoOD> Chukanov, N. V., Pekov, I. V., Möckel, S., Zadov, A. E., and Dubinchuk V. T. Zinclipscombite, Zn(Fe<sup>3+</sup>)<sub>2</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub>, a new mineral species ''Geology of Ore Deposits'', '''49''', 7, 509–513, {{doi|10.1134/S1075701507070033}} [https://archive.today/20130202221008/http://www.springerlink.com/content/2u13435487684231/] </ref>

<ref name=Chukanov2006> Chukanov, N. V., Pekov, I. V., Möckel, S., Zadov, A. E., and Dubinchuk V. T. (2006): Zinclipscombite Zn(Fe<sup>3+</sup>)<sub>2</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub> – a new mineral. ''Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical Society'', '''135'''(6), 13–18. [http://www.mindat.org/loc-6744.html] </ref>

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==External links==

Gallery of [http://www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=29136 zinclipscombite pictures] at mindat.org.

Category:Zinc minerals Category:Iron(III) minerals Category:Phosphate minerals Category:Tetragonal minerals Category:Minerals in space group 96

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