It is the arsenate analogue of the phosphate corkite.
Corkite will also form a solid solution with kintoreite.
Corkite is the phosphate analogue of beudantite and with it, a complete solid solution range exists.
"' Corkite "'is a phosphate mineral in the beudantite subgroup of the alunite group.
In 1874, the geologist Friedrich August Frenzel named a mineral miraquidite after this forest name ( it is not clear which; it may be beudantite or corkite ).
Corkite is named after County Cork, Ireland; the location where the first notable amount was discovered in 1869 . Like many of the other minerals in the beudantite group, corkite is a relatively uncommon, secondary mineral that occurs in hydrothermal base metal deposits.
Corkite is named after County Cork, Ireland; the location where the first notable amount was discovered in 1869 . Like many of the other minerals in the beudantite group, corkite is a relatively uncommon, secondary mineral that occurs in hydrothermal base metal deposits.